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GENTRIFICATION OF HISTORY
Bethesda’s predominantly Black community is fighting big business—and the government—on behalf of their departed ancestors.
Barrett Holmes Pitner is a politics and race-and-culture journalist, and the Founder and Philosopher-in-Chief of The Sustainable Culture Lab. He is based in Washington, DC. Follow him on Twitter @barrettpitner
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ROTTEN REEDEEMERS
Today’s Republican politicians are counting on ignorance of or apathy about that history as they try to create their own election-crime cop forces.
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‘LAWFUL CONQUEROR’
His acquittal is only the latest reminder that life and liberty have always been about the protection of property.
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CRIME WITHOUT A NAME
The first step toward fixing a problem is naming it.
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‘NOBODY EVER HEARD OF IT’
To create the freedom it’s promised, America must liberate itself from many of the lies we have long told ourselves.
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TIME’S UP
The Senate has been impeding American democracy for two centuries, but this does not mean it has to go on forever.
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BOOM!
He gutted Trump even more severely than his wife had. But then he stepped back. He may think Trump is hopeless, but he still wants us to hope.
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‘SOMETHING GOOD’
In America, no longer owning a slave necessitated reparations but being enslaved did not. It’s history we need to remember to even begin the work of moving past it.
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ETHNOCIDE
When systematic terror is normalized, institutionalized, and legalized, atrocities appear to be banal and unavoidable facets of life.
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‘HOT PURSUIT’
In America, and especially the South, criminality is stamped on black bodies from birth.