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When Black People Start Winning, the Rules of the Game Change

November 14, 2019 crhodes Leave a comment

Remember “white flight”?  In this age of gentrification, it might seem quaint to think about the days in which well-off…

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Posted in: Identity, Politics Filed under: Affirmative Action, Barack Obama, Beyonce, Colin Kaepernick, Corey Booker, Deval Patrick, education, Harvard, Ivy League, Jay-Z, Kamala Harris, Wealth

“OK Boomer” Blows the Lid off Age-Based Identity Politics

November 12, 2019 crhodes Leave a comment

I finally got around to watching the “Ok Boomer” clip after having read about it over the past week.  Actually…

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Posted in: Identity, Politics Filed under: age, Identity, Intersectionality, Ok boomer

America’s Whitest State Welcomes Black Immigrants (and Elects Them Too)

November 7, 2019 crhodes Leave a comment

How Maine is a very unusual state, socially and politically. I spent the summers after my Junior and Senior years…

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Posted in: Identity, International, Politics Filed under: Angus King, Immigration, Maine, Olympia Snowe, Paul LaPage, Refugees, Safiya Khalid, Somalia, Susan Collins

The Politics of “MLK Boulevard”

November 6, 2019 crhodes Leave a comment

In our current polarized political climate, yesterday’s slate of elections, held in an odd-numbered year (thus off-cycle for US House,…

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Posted in: Identity, Politics Filed under: Civil Rights Movement, Confederacy, Martin Luther King

Trump Administration Invades Historically Black College

October 26, 2019 crhodes Leave a comment

In 1861, the United States Civil War began in my home state of South Carolina, when forces loyal to the…

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Posted in: Identity, Politics Filed under: Benedict College, Criminal Justice Reform, Donald Trump, HBCU, Kamala Harris, Racism

White Privilege Attempts to Claim “Lynching” Too

October 23, 2019 crhodes Leave a comment

It should go without saying that Donald Trump is not being lynched.  Impeachment, an orderly, fact-based inquiry into wrongdoing based…

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Posted in: Identity, Politics Filed under: Donald Trump, Intersectionality, Kimberle Crenshaw, Lindsey Graham, Lynching, Newt Gingrich, Racism, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Harvard and Affirmative Action, or Why Helping Black People Is OK as Long as It Helps White People Too

October 3, 2019 crhodes Leave a comment

For a brief moment, I was literally the face of diversity at Harvard (my picture was once on the cover…

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Posted in: Identity, Politics Filed under: Affirmative Action, Discrimination, Harvard, Supreme Court

No, Canada! Questions and Answered about the Trudeau Blackface Scandal

September 19, 2019 crhodes Leave a comment

I have so many questions concerning this growing blackface/brownface controversy swirling around Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In case you…

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Posted in: Identity, International, Other, Politics Filed under: blackface, Canada, Justin Trudeau, Racism

My New Article on UnHerd.com: Can you be trans and Christian?

July 1, 2019 crhodes Leave a comment

Hello readers, I’ll be posting less regularly for the time being as I develop other projects, but I will be…

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Posted in: Identity, International, Other, Religion

America, your racism is showing (but that might be a good thing?)

February 7, 2019 crhodes Leave a comment

America: We need to talk. Remember when Barack Obama was elected president, and we were debating whether we had reached…

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Posted in: Identity, Politics Filed under: bias, Liam Neeson, Mark Herring, racsm, Ralph Northam, Virginia

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