Kudos to @LastWeekTonight for getting to the nitty gritty of how this panic over CRT is an old trick out of a very old racist playbook.

Here’s the gist of it (1/5):
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And for all those who don’t get what CRT is--or attack it bc of claims that it labels all white people racist--the fact that CRT focuses on institutions & laws rather than prejudice & individuals has been a contradiction in plain sight. (4/5)
Countering the coordinated lying at the heart of the anti-CRT campaign and connecting the dots between the assault on democracy, antiracism and Black history is what we’re about.

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RSVP at bit.ly/blacklight29 and I'll see you at 8!

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I finally took a moment to read Judge Cahill’s sentencing memo in the trial of Derrick Chauvin and I’m appalled. Buried deep in Judge Cahill’s justification for Chauvin’s sentence is a shocking disregard of the trauma inflicted on the Black girls who witnessed Floyd’s murder.
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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.”

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newrepublic.com/article/154605…
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