How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory newyorker.com/news/annals-of… via @NewYorker
Not everyday, not every week...
"Every HOUR sees the black man elbowed out of employment by some newly arrived emigrant whose hunger and whose COLOR are thought to give him a better title to the place."
-- Frederick Douglass
"Every HOUR sees the black man elbowed out of employment by some newly arrived emigrant whose hunger and whose COLOR are thought to give him a better title to the place."
-- Frederick Douglass
A Child of Newly Arrived Italian Immigrants Wages War on #CriticalRaceTheory
"#Rufo became convinced that poverty was not something that could be alleviated with a policy lever but was deeply embedded in “social, familial, even psychological” dynamics, and his politics ...
"#Rufo became convinced that poverty was not something that could be alleviated with a policy lever but was deeply embedded in “social, familial, even psychological” dynamics, and his politics ...
... that poverty was not something that could be alleviated with a policy lever but was deeply embedded in “social, familial, even psychological” dynamics, and his politics became more explicitly conservative. "
Rufo vs. The Homeless People
"Returning home to Seattle, where his wife worked for Microsoft, Rufo got a small grant from a regional, conservative think tank to report on homelessness, and then ran an unsuccessful campaign for city council, in 2018."
"Returning home to Seattle, where his wife worked for Microsoft, Rufo got a small grant from a regional, conservative think tank to report on homelessness, and then ran an unsuccessful campaign for city council, in 2018."
"His work so outraged Seattle’s homelessness activists that, during his election campaign, someone plastered his photo and home address on utility poles around his neighborhood. When Rufo received the anti-bias documents from the city of Seattle, ...
When Rufo received the anti-bias documents from the city of Seattle, he knew how to spot political kindling.
These days, “I’m a brawler,” Rufo told me cheerfully.
How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory newyorker.com/news/annals-of… via @NewYorker
These days, “I’m a brawler,” Rufo told me cheerfully.
How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory newyorker.com/news/annals-of… via @NewYorker
Conservative Activist Grabbed Trump’s Eye on Diversity Training
"Christopher Rufo called on president to ban ‘critical race theory’ from federal agencies’ diversity-training materials, and days later the president did so."
wsj.com/articles/conse…
"Christopher Rufo called on president to ban ‘critical race theory’ from federal agencies’ diversity-training materials, and days later the president did so."
wsj.com/articles/conse…
Christopher Rufo Theory? @JoyAnnReid and @realchrisrufo debate his amalgam of conservative perspectives on race in America. #TheReidOut #reiders
@AlsoACarpenter @JaVonniBrustow
It's kinda fascinating how some colorblind conservatism color, uses diversity, to wage war on diversity. It's rather ironic, how he uses Asians against African Americans.
His wife is Asian.
It's kinda fascinating how some colorblind conservatism color, uses diversity, to wage war on diversity. It's rather ironic, how he uses Asians against African Americans.
His wife is Asian.
There Is No Debate Over Critical Race Theory
Pundits and politicians have created their own definition for the term, and then set about attacking it.
By Ibram X. Kendi
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Pundits and politicians have created their own definition for the term, and then set about attacking it.
By Ibram X. Kendi
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Rufo is no a legal scholar.
It seems (I could be wrong) that he doesn't like African Americans having a DISSIMILAR/different, story in relationship to Racial Slavery?
Does it complicate his theories?
Does he want to de-NEGROf-y our American Story?
It seems (I could be wrong) that he doesn't like African Americans having a DISSIMILAR/different, story in relationship to Racial Slavery?
Does it complicate his theories?
Does he want to de-NEGROf-y our American Story?
Would de-NEGROf-ying American history, make America less racist or more? Will this will make America Great, for White & Asian immigrants -- what about black people who've been here for centuries?
The “colorblind” progressive and the “colorblind” conservative are two peas in a pod: Minimizing the dissimilar ripple effect/horror of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, has helped EVERY OTHER GROUP but the one most impacted: African Americans. 
“The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro.”
—James Baldwin
18.02.1965
“I picked the cotton, and I carried it to the market, and I built the railroads for nothing. For nothing!”
#BlackLivesMatter
—James Baldwin
18.02.1965
“I picked the cotton, and I carried it to the market, and I built the railroads for nothing. For nothing!”
#BlackLivesMatter
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