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U.S. post racial, you say?

From my upcoming column in the St. Louis American:

The Cliven Bundys and Donald Sterlings of the world also keep us grounded in the reality of whether or not America is in a post-racial period. While they represent very different economic strata, their opinions about blacks are not that far apart. Bundy has been leeching off the government for 20 years in unpaid grazing fees. His statements about negroes “being better off as slaves” fit right in with Sterling’s plantation notion of taking care of his black basketball Clippers. “I…give them food, and clothes, and cars, and houses.”

Unsolved homicides: 1000 St. Louis families in justice limbo

The investigative series on the unsolved homicides by the St. Louis Police Department (SLPD) was revealing and confirming. St. Louis Public Radio, American Public Media and The Marshall Project joined forces to find out the reasons and presented their findings recently to the public.

Let’s not talk about Trump Anymore

Our time is better spent building a united front against fascism – We talk about the impending doom as if it won’t affect us or as if we have no power to change the course of political trajectory barreling towards authoritarianism.

Inside Wisconsin’s Jails and Prisons more than an Act of Insanity

The persistent problem of mass incarceration in the U.S. invokes the saying, “If you keep doing the same thing, you will get the same results.”

U.S. post racial, you say?

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