The Guardian
The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea
20+ min · · The long read: Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race. But once the idea was invented, it quickly began to reshape the modern world · Shared by 340, including @grzewap@mastodon.social, Amicitia, Rick Powell, Faik Ersoy, Mkay, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, Ceferino Díaz, Jane, Anita Hill, DeLong🖖, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Rob Weinert-Kendt, Mike Monteiro, cisgendered male
Bon Appétit
The "White People Food" Meme Is Trapping Us All
2 min · · How did "Where's the seasoning?" become the internet's favorite food joke? · Shared by 320, including Rick Powell
YES! Magazine
Why Is America Obsessed With Racial Trauma?
6 min · · People of color are pigeonholed almost exclusively into constrained narratives of trauma and rejection, our anguish commodified for consumption. It’s time to change this. · Shared by 316, including Rick Powell
ProPublica
The Black American Amputation Epidemic
20+ min · · Black patients were losing limbs at triple the rate of others. The doctor put up billboards in the Mississippi Delta. Amputation Prevention Institute, they read. He could save their limbs, if it… · Shared by 243, including Rick Powell, Alice Wong 王美華, Memen Isimo, Lisa Suennen, Virginia Hughes, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, Jason Stanley
MIT Technology Review
Of course technology perpetuates racism. It was designed that way.
4 min · · Black Americans have seen technology used to target them again and again. Stopping it means looking at the problem differently. · Shared by 240, including Anthony Hamelle, Brett King #TheFuturists #OptimalHumanity ✈️, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, LARRY ELKAN, Eric Bailey, Tris Hussey, Rick Powell, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Katja Evertz, Jim Marous 💯, Bill Johnston, Mathew Ingram, Antonio Vieira Santos, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, luis antónio santos, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), Josep M. Ganyet
The New York Times
America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One
20+ min · · Our founding ideals of liberty and equality were false when they were written. For generations, black Americans have fought to make them true. · Shared by 240, including Nilofer Merchant, David Madden, justin, Parody of a Parody Account, Mkay, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, DeLong🖖, Jason Stanley, Ida Bae Wells, Michael (मुकेश), @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Mathew Ingram, Mark Kaigwa, Doug Kessler, Bjorn Larsen, NYTimes Communications, Philanthropy News Digest, Rob Weinert-Kendt, Skoll Foundation, Avinash Kaushik
The New York Times
The 1619 Project
1 min · · American slavery began 400 years ago this month. This is referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country’s true origin. · Shared by 231, including Phin Barnes, Monica Burns #EdTech #Education, Jane, Berrak Sarikaya, Minda Harts, Amy Cuddy, PhD, joe mcnally, ACLU, Katie Benner, Ida Bae Wells, Stewart Alsop, Matt Brennan, Brian Stelter, Amy Jo Kim, Rep. Suzan DelBene, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Sam Sifton, Mathew Ingram, Alice Wong 王美華, Aníbal M. Astobiza
The New York Times
Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People.
6 min · · The collapse of politics and governance leaves no other option. · Shared by 182, including Kelsey Keith, Naomi Klein, Jason Stanley, Larry Ferlazzo, Barry C Smith, Kevin M. Kruse, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rick Powell, Alice Wong 王美華
The Atlantic
The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility
7 min · · The popular book aims to combat racism but talks down to Black people. · Shared by 160, including Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Michael Shermer, LoriBeth, Richard Dawkins, Denny Burk, Christina Hoff Sommers, Rick Powell, Olivia Kühni
FiveThirtyEight
Why Statistics Don’t Capture The Full Extent Of The Systemic Bias In Policing
5 min · · Graphics by Jasmine Mithani Across the U.S., demonstrators have spent the past few weeks protesting against racial disparities in the country’s criminal justice… · Shared by 159, including Jennifer Ouellette, Nate Silver, Larry Ferlazzo, Catherine De Vries, Rick Powell, Deborah Blum, rohit, Birgit Schefer, Pip Morris, Maggie Koerth, Arin Basu
The Guardian
The toppling of Edward Colston's statue is not an attack on history. It is history
5 min · · The slave trader’s figure loomed over Bristol for 125 years. Now a multiracial protest has achieved what past campaigns couldn’t, says historian and broadcaster David Olusoga · Shared by 140, including Simon Hix, Rick Powell, Dr Jim Walsh, George Monbiot, Dorothy Bishop, Mariana Mazzucato, Dr Adam Rutherford, Deborah Blum, Chris Moran
The New York Times
Minneapolis Police Use Force Against Black People at 7 Times the Rate of Whites
8 min · · When the officers use kicks, chokeholds, punches, takedowns, Mace spray, Tasers and the like, the person subject to that force is black about 60 percent of the time. · Shared by 133, including Jer Thorp, Judd Legum, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Maggie Koerth, Christopher Groskopf, John Keefe, luis antónio santos, Rick Powell, Alexandra Sifferlin, Deborah Blum, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Marie-José Kolly, Patrick Neeman, Emily Badger, Rachael Dottle, Martina Pugliese, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, aubrey blanche-sarellano (she/her), Rob Weinert-Kendt
The New York Times
American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation.
20+ min · · Slavery helped turn America into a financial colossus. And our economy is still shaped by management practices invented by enslavers and overseers. · Shared by 120, including estherderby 🌻, DeLong🖖, Austin Kleon, Meeting of the Minds, Shawn Venasse, Josep M. Ganyet, Peter Merholz, Joanna J Bryson, Stowe Boyd, Gerry Gaffney, trudy, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Tim Müller, Michael (मुकेश), Miles Kimball, Carly, Jonathan Kogan, Esther Schindler, Nilofer Merchant, Liv 😷
Quillette
Why Did Harvard University Go After One of Its Best Black Professors?
8 min · · Roland Fryer Jr.’s life is a movie script: A man abandoned by his mom and raised by an alcoholic dad became the youngest black professor to ever secure tenure at Harvard University. After ascending to… · Shared by 102, including Rick Powell, Niall Ferguson
Bellingcat
The El Paso Shooting and the Gamification of Terror
6 min · · On August 3, 2019, at around 11am local time, initial police reports indicated that a gunman had walked into an El Paso Wal-Mart and opened fire. As of the publication of this article, at least… · Shared by 99, including Fern, Rick Powell, Janosch Tröhler, luis antónio santos, Charles Baldwin, Jane, Liliane Ferrari ™, Glyn Britton, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Gerrit Eicker, Mark Kaigwa
nature
Too many senior white academics still resist recognizing racism
3 min · · As a Black woman who is the chair of a university science department, people have questioned my right to exist at every stage. · Shared by 88, including Bethany Brookshire, Dr. Janet D. Stemwedel, PhD 🏳️🌈, Christian Surchi, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Rick Powell