Racial brain rot can infect every area of someone’s life, including that of coaches who should presumably care more about the well-being of their players and winning games than skin color.
As a proud American of Mexican heritage, I was excited to hear about the idea of opening a Latino museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum would tell the story of Latinos’ fierce patriotism, hard work ethic, and devotion to their family and community, according to the organizers.
The chief diversity officer has lost its luster. Once the hot new role for companies looking to cash in on progressive calls for surface-level heterogeneity, the role of CDO is now difficult to find and nearly impossible to keep.
“I was born in a small town,” John Mellencamp sang in 1985. “And I live in a small town.” Actually, according to a recent issue of that small-town staple Architectural Digest, Mellencamp currently resides in Montecito, California, on “six acres of land at a mountainous peak.” It’s not a little pink house. It’s a rambling, white-painted former ranch with Spanish-style decor inspired by Karl Malden’s house in the movie One-Eyed Jacks. Ain’t that America.
Evanston, Illinois, has been referred to as the new epicenter of the civil rights movement. In 2019, it became the first city in America to guarantee funding for reparations to black residents. In a four-part series, Reparations Nation, the Washington Examiner profiled the program s architect, talked to recipients of $25,000 housing grants, and examined the partnership between the city and one of its largest employers, Northwestern University, as both tried to navigate the lasting legacies of a racist past.