Everything old is new again, as some Democrats have unleashed their hateful and intolerant bigotry toward the latest black Republican politician running for office.
Pope Francis referred to the massacre of indigenous schoolchildren as a "genocide" during a press conference, the first time he has used the word to describe the killings in his trip to Canada.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will be able to weigh in on a lawsuit surrounding alleged discriminatory college admissions practices after the high court decoupled a pair of cases surrounding affirmative action policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
On June 5, 2020, the Twitter account for Fruit Gushers, the little packets of candy that are like diabetes-inducing ravioli, posted as follows: “Gushers wouldn’t be Gushers without the Black community and your voices. We’re working with @fruitbythefoot on creating space to amplify that. We see you. We stand with you.” Fruit By the Foot retweeted it, writing: “Teaming up with @gushers. We are listening & committed for the long term. Stay tuned.”
The American government’s standard racial and ethnic categories make a certain amount of sense. They’re approximately continental groupings, and they capture how, over many centuries, circumstances have brought visually distinguishable people from different parts of the world to this country. Native Americans settled here long before the arrival of white Europeans, who brought black slaves from Africa, and subsequent immigration introduced populations from Asia and Latin America.