RAJAH BOSE I’m sitting across from Rachel Dolezal, and she looks… white. Not a little white, not racially ambiguous. Dolezal looks really, really white. She looks like a white woman with a mild suntan, in box braids—like perhaps she’d just gotten back from a Caribbean vacation and decided to keep the hairstyle for a few […]
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The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black
I‘m sitting across from Rachel Dolezal, and she looks… white. Not a little white, not racially ambiguous. Dolezal looks really, really white. She looks like a white woman with a mild suntan, in box braids—like perhaps she’d just gotten back from a Caribbean vacation and decided to keep the hairstyle for a few days “for […]
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If You Give A Cop A Pepsi…
Ijeoma Oluo: “Basically a kid gives a mouse a cookie and it leads to all these unforeseen consequences.” Harper and Row Many people are outraged at Pepsi’s new ad (which was pulled as quickly as it was posted). In the midst of a vague, high-fashion protest for “a conversation” and “peace signs” Karma Jenner is […]
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Good Morning, America. Welcome To Your White Supremacy
The White Supremacist House. ESB Professional/shutterstock.com To get this delivered to your inbox, subscribe to The Stranger’s newsletter: Just yesterday, I was saying that we should be looking at the post-reconstruction South in order to understand what has been happening with Trump voters. But when I wrote those words yesterday morning, I was writing them […]
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If White Voters Want to Understand Black Voters in the 2016 Presidential Election, Watch 13th
The last few days, I’ve been hearing from white people concerned about lower voter turnout of black Americans. Some have implored me to “do my part” to help get out the black vote. Others have reached out to try to understand why—why when there is such risk of a nightmare Trump presidency would black voters […]
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Chi-Raq Is Bad. Everything About It Is Bad. Don’t See It.
CHI-RAQ This is a bad movie and you should not watch it. Film critics are pretty solitary people. We silently file into dark theaters with our notepads and pens and watch a screening, then we nod at the studio rep on our way out, perhaps giving a vague quote, like “interesting” or “nice soundtrack” when […]
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Chi-Raq Is an Insult
Everything About Spike Lee’s Latest Is Awful
Everything about Spike Lee’s latest is awful.