Thread by @sandylocks

My most recent piece, "The Eternal Fantasy of a Racially Virtuous America," was my last in what was a great run at @newrepublic under the editorial leadership of Chris Lehmann (@lehmannchris).

Here's a thread of the articles I wrote for TNR in the past two years:

From May of 2019, "Racial Terror and the Second Repeal of Reconstruction: How the legacy of Jim Crow haunts Trump's America.”

newrepublic.com/article/153772…

From August of 2019, “The Destructive Politics of White Amnesia: Before there is reconciliation, there must be truthful engagement with the conditions of Trumpian reaction."

newrepublic.com/article/154605…

From October of 2019, "How Men Distort the Race Debate: The rhetorical obsession with single mothers obscures the root cause of racial inequality."

newrepublic.com/article/155282…

From January of 2020, "Naming the Threat: The scourge of police violence targeting Black women."

newrepublic.com/article/156011…

From March of 2020, "Seeing No Evil: The peril of gender-blind consensus thinking."

newrepublic.com/article/156805…

From May of 2020, "When Blackness is a Preexisting Condition: How modern disaster relief has hurt African American communities."

newrepublic.com/article/157537…

Another from May of 2020, "The Unmattering of Black Lives: In the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, we see that the violence of the past is the violence of the present."

newrepublic.com/article/157769…

From August of 2020, "Fear of a Black Uprising: Confronting the white pathologies that shape racist policing."

newrepublic.com/article/158725…

From October of 2020, "Don’t Reboot the 2016 Horror Show: How we might prevent November’s election from turning into another sequel to 'The Purge.'"

newrepublic.com/article/159731…

From December of 2020, "The Unacceptable Costs of Appeasing MAGA Nation: Why we can’t afford to make peace with white supremacists."

newrepublic.com/article/160654…

And finally, my latest, "The Eternal Fantasy of a Racially Virtuous America: How partisans on all sides overlook the brutal legacies of white supremacy."

newrepublic.com/article/161568…

Thanks to all of those who read, and thanks to @lehmannchris for his incredible dedication and craftsmanship. Onto to the next thing! Maybe you heard...

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