Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
White House chief of staff John Kelly and White House press secretary Sarah Sanders listen during a Roosevelt Room event Oct. 31, 2017, at the White House in Washington, D.C. Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) I thought white people were evil. I was wrong. Whenever anyone mentions the historical atrocity of chattel slavery, white people…
The fires on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, had barely stopped burning when the Department of Justice released an extraordinary report on the city’s police department. In the findings of the 2015 investigation of the Ferguson Police Department, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division detailed how a municipality had built its social contract on a slow-rolling…
Ms. Kelly is a Ph.D. student researching the impact of digital cultures on anti-feminism and the far right. CreditIllustration by Na Kim; photographs by Bluexhand/iStock, via Getty Images and Creative Commons In a podcast interview posted last spring, Nicole Jorgenson, a singer and former schoolteacher in North Dakota, explains to her host that she has…
Photo: Getty Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum, a “liberal” blogger who thinks you’d be “crazy” if you don’t have a “reflexive disgust of the homeless,” did a take today on liberals supposedly “defending” MS-13, the gang which Donald Trump is now calling full of “animals” every chance he gets. It was terrible. The impetus for Drum’s…
Photo: AP Here’s a lovely anecdote from the Washington Post about racist White House aide Stephen Miller and racist man-child Jared Kushner laughing at racist jokes told by the racist president of the United States in the racist Oval Office before his first racist address to Congress. Wheeee! From the Post: The night before Trump delivered…
I could only have seen it there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely 7 years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my father would not have believed in it. Yes, it had to have happened like this, like…
I happened to listen to “This Is America,” the new single by Childish Gambino, a.k.a. Donald Glover, before I saw the eloquent, ultra-violent accompanying video concocted by Glover and the director Hiro Murai. One of the song’s three strands is set to a benign Afrobeat rhythm, with Glover and a backing choir echoing old, edifying…
Neo-Nazis held a swastika burning following a white supremacist rally in the city of Newnan, Georgia, on Saturday. Photographer Spencer Platt captured the scene for Getty Images. His pictures show a massing burning swastika and an othala rune – a pagan symbol that was used by some elements of the Third Reich. One image shows…
Graphic: Michael Harriot (The Root; photo via iStock) Every so often a new phrase emerges that encapsulates the cunning Caucasian ability to keep power and dominance within their clutches by painting themselves as the oppressed class. Whether it is “reverse racism,” “Make America great again” or “separate but equal,” coining catchphrases as a means of…
Graphic: Elena Scotti (GMG), photos: AP, Getty Images When political commentator Sally Kohn sent Aminatou Sow, host of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend, a passage from her forthcoming book The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity in which she is quoted, Sow was confused. The quote harkened back to a night…