Having grown up with many black friends in London, I remember noticing at a certain age that they were treated differently by authority figures. At 13 or 14, my black friends were always disproportionately targeted by teachers for causing trouble, eyed suspiciously whenever we ...read more
Breitbart.com doe not publish overtly racist or misogynistic content. Its staff of Alt-Right 'journalists' are too clever to get caught blatantly insulting women or black people. But they know exactly how to cater to the audience of the white supremacist bros who log on and read ...read more
On Sunday 4th, October 1936, my Jewish grandfather took to the streets of the East End in London and went to fight fascists marching through his neighborhood. The Battle of Cable Street was a defining moment in British history when domestic fascism was beaten back and London ...read more
Just when it seemed like Donald Trump was capable of passing the lowest bar ever, when he finally said "racism is evil" yesterday after three days of refusing to acknowledge that the events in Charlottesville were caused by white nationalist neo-Nazis, he did a press conference ...read more
“We are determined to take our country back,” said former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia today. “We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That’s what we believed in, that’s why we voted for Donald Trump. ...read more
From time to time, various countries have to deal with political movements that can only be branded as reprehensible. Fascism in Italy, Nazism in Germany, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and so on. And in most cases when those movements collapse under the weight of the oppression ...read more
On March 17 a white Army veteran named James Harris Jackson boarded a bus from Baltimore to New York City. Several days later, he allegedly stabbed a black man, 66-year-old Timothy Caughman, to death. Jackson and Caughman didn't know each other. But Jackson, by his own ...read more
Throughout President Trump's campaign and especially during his transition and first several days in office, it ought to have been more than obvious that he knows absolutely nothing. Worse, he compensates for his staggering post-Bush level of intellectual laziness by bullshitting ...read more
California-born, Tokyo-based Dexter Thomas, Jr is a scholar of music and Internet culture at Cornell University. He is finishing his book on Japanese hip-hop this year. He tweets at@dexdigi. For a moment there, things were looking pretty good. A boy shot multiple times with his ...read more
