Conservatives have a special purgatory for uppity Black women who dare question America’s founding myths. New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones — her Pulitzer Prize-winning “1619 Project” […]
Tag: racism
The phrase ‘systemic racism’ clouds productive debate
by Ramesh Ponnuru “It’s past time for America to discard the left-wing myth of systemic racism,” former Vice President Mike Pence said on a recent visit to […]
100 years later: The American massacre you never heard of
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is adapted from an editorial that originally ran June 16, 2020. May 31/June 1, 2021, marks the 100 year anniversary of the Tulsa […]
Sometimes, you wonder what they’re so afraid of
Not that the subject has ever been easy. No, as has often been noted in this space, this country has been positively Herculean in its effort to […]
May 16 letters to the editor
Ignoring racism in history not the answer Cynthia M. Allen worries about “… an unrelenting effort by a powerful few to frame everything … through the lens […]
As a 12-year-old, she defied the KKK in order to comfort Freedom Riders injured in a firebombing
by Janie Forsyth McKinney In early 1961, I considered myself an unremarkable, shy seventh-grader except for the fact I made straight As, wore thick prescription glasses and […]
Voters reject school ‘cultural sensitivity’
by Cynthia M. Allen Southlake, near Fort Worth, Texas, is not the most unlikely place for a showdown over critical race theory. The Dallas-Fort Worth suburb is […]
Green Book sites remind us of a not-so-distant past
While we generally opine on the kind of news that makes headlines, sometimes we stumble across an interesting tidbit of information that might not make the news […]
Myth of America’s Anglo-Saxon political traditions
by Noah Feldman A group of House conservatives have been discussing an “America First Caucus” that would aim to protect and advance what they call “Anglo-Saxon political […]
‘A riot is the language of the unheard’
“The anguish we are suffering cannot translate into violence.” So said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey last week in the wake of yet another police killing of yet […]
