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It's a tragedy what happened to Breonna Taylor, but in the Greek sense. By all means let's criticize American policing, but outrage here should be directed primarily at Jamarcus Glover.

What kind of work, other than spiritual work, begins by declaring that it can never end? "You just can't wake up one day, in this, and say, ‘I'm out. I

“White Savior Complex” energy here:This person feels entitled to come to my profile expressly to, in her words, “mock” me because I “actively harm POC.” Yet I’m the “POC” here,

Applying the term “African American” to her when she doesn’t even apply it to herself is really something to behold https://twitter.com/royathewriter/status/1293674191972171776 To be clear, I don’t have a problem with

What does it mean to call Kamala Harris "black" in an American context? People keep saying, "Well, she looks black." Always good to keep in mind that "race" has never

This is a new form of ad hominem criticism for me. This person (named Bari Williams of all things! Hello, are we in a simulation or what!?) states explicitly—not by

Can you please just respond to the one question I asked you at Bard last fall: How do we make sense of the inequality of outcome between Asian Americans and

This is one of the strangest critiques I’ve ever received. How is my name privileged? The 18th-century English poet Thomas Chatterton was *extraordinarily poor.* His struggle to rise above his

Is Robin DiAngelo ever in a situation where, instead of speaking from on high, she debates a "black" or "non-white" interlocutor who disagrees with her? I would very much like

This so deeply insulting and indicative of how belittling the racial conversation in America is becoming. The National Museum of African American History & Culture (with an assist from Robin

Stanley Crouch told me when I was starting out that it’s pretty impressive if a person has very serious, very developed views that they’ve arrived at on their own on,

I blew an interview for a job at GQ when I was just getting started in 2009. The office was an almost totally white space. Were I in my 20s