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Reader Comments: Supreme Court: Return to Separate and UnEqual; Child Labor; Remembering Pat Fry; Museums that Remember Slavery; Culture Wars Against Education Archive; Ending Climate and Nuclear Crises; lots of Announcements; Cartoons; more....

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How critical race theory has become a handy target for an old-fashioned assault on civil rights.

Racial justice forces need to win governing power within the current system and then continue to build the strength to dismantle the racist state and replace it with an antiracist one: fight against the white republic and for antiracist democracy.

My part of the world is full of people who, according to most of my liberal friends, “vote against their own interests”.

I am deeply disappointed to know that many, too many white women, approximately 57% of our total, need their whiteness so much that they dismiss everything non-white as less. The white women who voted for Trump in 2020 made a clear choice.

Slavery is the usual argument for reparations. But there’s another reason.

Self-reflection is welcome. But until we undo the structures that hold up anti-blackness across the world, injustice will persist

Amy Cooper knew exactly what she was doing. We all do. And that's the problem.

...white progressives and leftists underestimate the...power of strategically racist messaging, and fail to...engage in the communities the Right is targeting — white folks who are impacted by a system that consistently puts profits before people.