Today in BIPOC Privilege
11th August 2022
Mexican Monster on Sesame Street Being Canceled in Latest Racism Mania
Staff allegedly took down an Escambia County teacher’s posters of Black heroes. He quit. (Pensacola News) He was, of course, white.
Monkeypox Has Become a Predominantly Black Disease in Atlanta
Kevin Gates Responds To Backlash Over ‘Black Lives Matter’ Comments (Hip Hop DX)
California sets precedent by breaking down Black employee data by lineage (Axios) Pretty soon California will have as extensive a hereditary caste system as India. (Google’s Caste-Bias Problem)
Under an Unusual Arrangement, Adams’s Confidant Gets City and Casino Salaries (New York Times)
‘Everybody Is Armed’: As Shootings Soar, Philadelphia Is Awash in Guns’ (New York Times) As they describe but don’t actually say, mostly it’s black people shooting black people.
Race Does Not Exist: the Book, Saying of humans that race does not exist is like saying of dogs that breed does not exist.