Rania Khalek Dispatches from the Underclass

Tag / white privilege

A Reuters/Ipsos poll released last week reveals that nearly 40 percent of white Americans have zero friends of color. It’s unlikely that anyone with a basic understanding of modern-day race relations in this country is surprised by these statistics, but it’s still staggering to think that the closest interactions a large portion of US whites […]

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A Reuters/Ipsos poll released last week reveals that nearly 40 percent of white Americans have zero friends of color. It’s unlikely that anyone with a basic understanding of modern-day race relations in this country is surprised by these statistics, but it’s still staggering to think that the closest interactions a large portion of US whites […]

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One of the most popular and apparently controversial posts I have ever published on this site—The Best Take Down of Hipster Racism You Will Ever See—led to lots of heated debate in the comments section. Some (mostly but not exclusively white) people angrily denied the existence of hipster racism while others (mostly but not exclusively […]

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Nearly 93 percent of children stopped for curfew violations in New Orleans between 2009 and 2012 were black, reports Ramon Antonia Vargas at  NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune.

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Does ABC News think people of color don’t go missing?  Given their latest article on missing persons the FBI and local authorities are actively searching for, the answer appears to be yes. Of the 15 missing people ABC profiles, all but one are white, which wouldn’t be such a big deal if the article reflected the […]

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