By now, if you’ve been on your social media pages and are in any way involved in identity politics blogging, you’re aware of how the Twitterverse blew up with anti-South Asian (anti-Asian, anti-Muslim, anti-brown people and otherwise generally bigoted) racism following the crowning of the first desi Miss America on Sunday evening.
If you are a boxing fan and were reading Latino Rebels, you might also have seen this report of anti-African American racism following Floyd Mayweather’s clearly one-sided victory over Canelo Alvarez Saturday night.
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