When a black man lives the same day over and over again, he tries changing his behavior to survive a police interaction.

“Better run, better run, outrun my gun…”

Oregon state Rep. Ricki Ruiz said three people were detained in his district after ICE agents posed as utility workers.

Actually cooked.

The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people

Say their motherfucking names.

So much for Black Lives Matter.

Sharyn Alfonsi’s Inside CECOT for 60 Minutes, which was censored by Bari Weiss, as it appeared on Canada’s Global TV app.

Wow. And they pulled this shit off the air. Terrifying.

The Family Red Apple boycott, also known as the “Red Apple boycott”, “Church Avenue boycott” or “Flatbush boycott”, was the starting point of an eighteen-month series of boycotts targeting Korean-owned stores. It began in January 1990 with a Korean-American-owned shop called Family Red Apple at 1823 Church Avenue in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn and extended to other stores, both within and beyond the original neighborhood.

Racial turmoil set up by the white man in my own neighborhood. Harrowing indeed.

via: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0032329299027001005

An excellent piece making clear how Asian Americans fit into the tapestry of race in America, and how they’re used as pawns by whites to to further the disenfranchisement of blacks.

via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRTUJoMinuU`

This is a good introduction to hate speech as a legal phenomenon, with emphasis on social media and college campuses. Exposed me to a lot of useful viewpoints.

“Pro-DEI” is one of the dog whistles of all time.

see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW_WUmHxtGI

the tension between the black and asian american community is complicated. with asian american immigrants being both foreigners and racial minorities, how does this position them in a black-white socioracial framework?

This Article studies the intersection of race and gender, examining it through the lens of Western imperialism. Even though both critical race and feminist scholarship have addressed this intersection,few if any offer a precise theory for understanding the imperialized experience. This Article seeks to fill that void. The social inequality minority women face, in particular those of Asian descent, can be best articulated by a theory this Article calls white sexual imperialism.

This is an extremely harrowing piece, but it does show there is a way.

the Black diaspora immediately resonated with Madeline’s perspective and defended her against this early flood of hate comments, and this prompted a reckoning for the creators that jumped her, as well as deeper online conversation among Asian creators about how anti-Blackness fuels self-hate within assimilationist Asians.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

let’s talk about the assimil-asians

I am sensing a powerful synergy.

No court case in recent history has propelled Asian Americans into the political sphere like Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, and no issue has galvanized them like affirmative action. Asian Americans have taken center stage in the latest battle over affirmative action, yet their voices have been muted in favor of narratives that paint them as victims of affirmative action who ardently oppose the policy.

Very provocative essay which I’m struggling to fully believe.

How and why black conservatives sell out.

A scene of modern Britain played out on a rail replacement bus service in Newport yesterday. A woman wearing a niqab was chatting to her son in another language. After five minutes, a man suddenly snapped: ‘If you’re in the UK, you should speak English.’ At this, another passenger turned round and explained: ‘We’re in Wales. And she’s speaking Welsh.’