“The subtext of a lot of the "how to be a good ally" stuff is that a lot of liberal white folks still have pretty segregated social circles and the truth is if they started tugging on that thread they'd find some questions that lead to the answers they're looking for. (6/4/2020 on Twitter)” FriendsRacismSegregationAllyWhite LiberalsRedliningSocial Circles Author:Adam Serwer
“Memorial Day has the tendency to conjure up old arguments about the Civil War. That’s understandable; it was created to mourn the dead of a war in which the Union was nearly destroyed, when half the country rose up in rebellion in defense of slavery.” RacismSlaveryCivil WarMemorial DayUnionConfederacy Book:The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America Source: The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
“The artifacts that persist in my memory are the photographs of lynchings. But it’s not the burned, mutilated bodies that stick with me. It’s the faces of the white men in the crowd. There’s the photo of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Indiana in 1930, in which a white man can be seen grinning at the camera as he tenderly holds the hand of his wife or girlfriend.” TrumpRacismCrueltyIndianaDonald TrumpWhitenessLynchingWhite PowerWhite Americans Book:The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America Source: The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America