Woke, in other words, means being aware of these social crises and wanting to repair them, to make a more happy, loving, egalitarian society.

Here’s the Truth – If You’re Anti-Woke, You’re Pro-Bigot

“So in Florida, we say very clearly, we will never ever surrender to the woke mob. Our state is where woke goes to die.” “Wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic, hands down.” Donald Trump is more nuanced, preferring to simply say racist things aloud without using the DeSantis shorthand.

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MAGA Nation is Fighting a Race War

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says only “non-whites” can get anti-viral COVID treatment. It’s a lie, which, like all MAGA-conservatism, stokes racial grievance

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Opinion: Jon Gruden’s emails not just an NFL problem. They’re symbolic of societal white grievance.

If you want to fully understand why Jon Gruden resigned Monday after a trove of racist and misogynistic emails was unearthed like a giant vat of radioactive material, you must go back in time, from this week, this year, even this decade. You must go back to Nov.

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Opinion | The NFL’s racism problem is a lot bigger then Jon Gruden

Just days ago, Jon Gruden seemed unassailable, assumedly untouchable. But as of Monday, he resigned as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. A favorite of Vegas franchise owner Mark Davis, he was in year four of a mammoth 10-year contract.

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Ibram X. Kendi on What Conservatives-and Liberals-Get Wrong About Antiracism

Listen to this episode from The Ezra Klein Show on Spotify. “What if instead of a feelings advocacy we had an outcome advocacy that put equitable outcomes before our guilt and anguish?” wrote Ibram X. Kendi in his 2019 book “How to Be an Antiracist.”

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“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn’t have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves. When someone was so poor that he couldn’t afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift. We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn’t know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth. We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another. We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don’t know how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society. ” — John Fire Lame Deer 1903 – 1976

John Fire Lame Deer – Wikipedia

John Fire Lame Deer (in Lakota Tȟáȟča Hušté ; March 17, 1903 – December 14, 1976, also known as Lame Deer, John Fire and John (Fire) Lame Deer) was a Lakota holy man, member of the Heyoka society,[citation needed ] grandson of the Miniconjou head man Lame Deer, and father of Archie Fire Lame Deer.

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Colonialism is built on the rubble of a false idea of ancient Rome | Aeon Essays

At the dawn of the 20th century, Italian patriots were struggling to overcome a profound inferiority complex. Ever since 1861, when Giuseppe Garibaldi unified the country’s disparate regions into a nation-state, politicians and intellectuals had been anticipating the arrival of a glorious new era. Decades on, however, the economic, diplomatic and cultural results were wanting.

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Perspective | The truths ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ tells about white people

I was probably 15 or 16 when I first read Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird.” I may have seen the movie before then (one I have watched countless times since). The story, one of my favorites of all time, solidified Lee’s unwavering status as one of my top-five authors.

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Ibram Kendi, one of the nation’s leading scholars of racism, says education and love are not the answer

It’s a Wednesday night at a bookstore in a well-off part of Washington, D.C., and every seat is taken. More than 100 people spill into the aisles or crowd the stacks past the philosophy and cookbook sections to hear Ibram X. Kendi talk about the racist ideas that founded the nation.

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Biden’s Racism Is More Veiled Than Trump’s – But No Less Real

When it comes to race, Joe Biden’s record and rhetoric reflect the broader hypocrisy of U.S. politics. While Biden rightly criticizes Donald Trump’s racism, he then praises himself for his own ability to work with overt white supremacist Dixiecrat Democrats in the 1970s.

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The FBI Just Put White Nationalists and Neo-Nazis on the Same Threat Level as ISIS

The FBI has elevated racially-motivated violent extremism to a “national threat priority,” in yet another sign that the U.S. government has finally woken up to the threat posed by white nationalists and neo-Nazis at home and abroad.

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Tulsa race riot – Wikipedia

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Elaine Massacre of 1919 – Encyclopedia of Arkansas

The Elaine Massacre was by far the deadliest racial confrontation in Arkansas history and possibly the bloodiest racial conflict in the history of the United States. While its deepest roots lay in the state’s commitment to white supremacy, the events in Elaine (Phillips County) stemmed from tense race relations and growing concerns about labor unions.

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America’s Problem Isn’t Tribalism. It’s Racism.

Read: How to teach white kids about race A large number of Republican candidates, led by the president, ran racist or bigoted campaigns against their opponents. But those opponents cannot be said to belong to a “tribe.” No common ethnic or religious ties bind Heitkamp, Campa-Najjar, Delgado, or the constituencies that elected them.

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…from a Playboy interview in 1971. John Wayne was a fraud and a complete piece of shit. He dodged the draft, then built a mythology as a war hero in World War II. He turned his friends in to HUAC in their witch hunt for communists. And yet he’s almost universally still revered as the apex of American patriotism and masculinity. Fuck that guy. Snopes—Did John Wayne Say He Believed in White Supremacy?

Star Wars Episode XV: Why John Wayne Didn’t Sign Up

Find this episode on iTunes. No actor on movie screens in the 1940s embodied American patriotism and unpretentious masculinity better than JohnWayne, whose career was revitalized in 1939 with John Ford’s groundbreaking western, Stagecoach. But Wayne didn’t have the defining experience of most adult

FACT CHECK: Did John Wayne Say He Believed in White Supremacy?

John Wayne said that he believed in white supremacy during an interview with “Playboy” magazine. A meme purportedly featuring actor John Wayne’s thoughts on white supremacy has been circulating on the internet for several years: While many memes and macros of this nature often possess either incorrect or inaccurate attributions, this quote is completely real.

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Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination

A majority of whites say discrimination against them exists in America today, according to a poll released Tuesday from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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