Racism
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Fruitvale Station: Some Reactions
OMAR RICKS I feel helpless after watching Fruitvale Station (2013, dir. Ryan Coogler). I feel like this hits too close to home. Literally. The nursery...
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Whose (In)Justice? Whose Tears? Whose Peace?
By Zillah Eisenstein I am writing in the hopes of coalition building: civil rights/sex/gender/economic/environmental justice movements. And I am writing while remembering the Central Park...
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Originally Amalia
By Amalia Clarice Mora Life is easier, kinder, and more lenient when you are white, and this may be why George Zimmerman decided to downplay...
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In the Aftermath of the Trial
In the wake of the George Zimmerman trial, The Feminist Wire hosted a weeklong forum featuring a variety of essays and perspectives. We felt it...
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Instant Messages: On White Womanhood, Fear of Black Men, and Changing Our Minds
By Abe Louise Young because because because as far as I can tell less than a thousand children playing in the garden of a thousand...
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Race Baiting? Our System Has Failed
By Alice Hunt Dear white friends—particularly my white, female friends—our system has failed us. This failure became ever more clear to me when I saw...
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Carrying Trayvon’s Body: What is to be done?
By Shana Redmond To live in this world as Black people is to be confronted by the possibility of harm at every turn, to live...
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White Feminists and Trayvon Martin
By Debra Guckenheimer Gender and racial inequality are intertwined in ways the Trayvon Martin case highlighted. Historically, the safety of White women has been used...
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Racial Cowardice, White Denial: Post Racial Delusions in the Era of Zimmerman
The killing of Trayvon Martin, the trial of George Zimmerman, and the aftermath illustrate how much race matters. Yet the response from many, particularly white...
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Trayvon and George: Why This Case is Really about Women
By Kelly Macías Like many other Americans, over the last three weeks I was firmly gripped by the George Zimmerman trial. I watched with anxiety...
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Trayvon's Class of 2013
Last weekend, at Black Skeptics Los Angeles’ scholarship ceremony, my colleagues and I had the profound honor of giving scholarships to five brilliant youth of color who...
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“We’re” Not Raising Trayvon: The Difference Whiteness Makes
In the hours and days following the Zimmerman verdict, a kind of racial segregation has re-surfaced, not in formal, legal terms but with regard to...
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No Justice for Trayvon: White Women in the Jury Box
During the trial of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin, considerable media coverage surrounded the selection of six women for jury duty. Perhaps, some speculated,...
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White Female Jurors and Florida Justice
By Zillah Eisenstein I am white and female, like the almost-white jury that acquitted Zimmerman of murdering Trayvon Martin. But I am also an anti-racist...
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Conclusion: Shakur or, a Primer on the Difference between Morality and Ethics
for LC and TD All that you meet are thieves: to Athens go, Break open shops; nothing can you steal, But thieves do lose it...
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Assata IS Free
By Safiya Olugbala We would meet in the dreamworld where it was safe for me to ask you anything and no one would hear the...
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What Will It Take to Free Our Political Prisoners?
By Liz Derias The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), a revolutionary organization based in the u.s. that fights to uphold the self-determination and the human...
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Dear Assata…
By Tamara Curl-Green Dear Assata, I would like to let you know that your story sparked a change in my life. It was frightening and...
