Finally! A Simple Solution to Help Deal With Microaggressions: The My Oppression Card Project
This is easily one of my favourite crowd-funded projects I’ve ever had the privilege of being able to support. Have…
Category: Racism
Yale’s President Announces Major New Commitments to Diversity Initiatives in Wake of Student Protests
In the wake of the massive student protests that have rocked the Yale campus highlighting the institutional racism of the school and…
This Is Not About Free Speech
The protests that have embroiled university campuses across this country over the past week are as much about free speech…
How a Yale Prof’s Defense of Offensive Halloween Costumes Reveals a Hostile Campus Climate for Students of Colour
This country’s prestigious colleges and universities have a serious race problem. At the University of Missouri, student athletes have walked…
Second Mistrial Declared in Police Beating of Sureshbhai Patel
I just can’t even right now. A mistrial has once again been declared in the excessive force trial of Alabama…
We Need To Stop Blaming the Victims of Police Brutality For The Violence Committed Against Their Bodies
An unarmed 16-year-old schoolgirl who refuses to put away her cellphone does not deserve being grabbed by the neck and…
Race is No Just Cause: The US Government’s Racist Profiling of Asian Americans
Earlier this week, I gave a standing-room only talk at Yale about the Asian American Model Minority Myth, wherein I…
No Hate Crime Charges After Sikh American Man Beaten Days Before Anniversary of 9/11
A mere three days before the 14th anniversary of September 11th, 2001, the Sikh Coalition reports that 53-year-old Inderjit Singh Mukker —…
Wall Street Journal Deletes Tweet That Used anti-Asian Slur To Describe China’s President
Last night, the Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) tweeted an off-colour remark using an anti-Asian slur in a headline about China’s president,…
What Will It Take to Finally Label This What It Is: Domestic Terrorism? | #Charleston #AMEShooting
I can’t take it any more. Ferguson. Brown. Long Island. Garner. New York. Diallo. Cleveland. Rice. Brooklyn. Gurney. St. Louis.…
Race, Transracialization, and Other Thoughts on Rachel Dolezal
If you spend any time thinking about race or identity politics, you have by now heard of Rachel Dolezal, the…
Duke University Prof Makes Online Tirade Against “the Blacks” and “the Asians”
Duke University political science professor Jerry F. Hough — alumnus of Harvard University whose specialty is domestic identity formation at the…