I spent most of 2019 on mics, working on books, and building @AntiracismCtr. But I still managed to write essays @TheAtlantic. Here are my five most critical essays of 2019.
On climate change.
On my cancer.
On being an American.
On the new lynch mob.
On Black deprivation. 1/
@AntiracismCtr @TheAtlantic My essay on denial of climate change and racism resting "on the same foundation: the transformation of science into belief.” Meaning “all can believe and disbelieve all. . .Everyone lives as an expert on every subject. No experts live on any subject.” 2/
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@AntiracismCtr @TheAtlantic The story of my grueling fight in 2018 to survive stage IV colon cancer and how writing #HowToBeAnAntiracist got me through. “Nothing else matters in those moments of creation, until creating brings me—and hopefully the reader—back to what matters.” 3/
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@AntiracismCtr @TheAtlantic When Trump told 4 Congresswomen of color (and U.S. citizens) to go back to their countries, I asked, “Is an American essentially white? I do not know. I do not know if I’m still three-fifths of an American. . .Or fully American. Or not American at all.” 4/
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@AntiracismCtr @TheAtlantic 2019 saw the highest number of mass killings on record, some carried out by lone White supremacists, a century after the Red Summer of lynch mobs in 1919. “The lynch mob endures in a different form," I wrote. "The assault rifle is the lynch mob of one.” 5/
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@AntiracismCtr @TheAtlantic After early death of Rep. Elijah Cummings, I examined the inverse of White privilege--Black deprivation--and how racism deprives Blacks of life itself. “Perhaps we should think less about what racism affords people and more about what it deprives them of?”
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