Race
Race issues caused our bloodiest war, and still make headlines daily.
Racism Today
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Mass incarceration
We have over two million prisoners, disproportionately black, making our goods.
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The prison-industrial complex has transformed our criminal justice system since the 1970’s. Fewer than five percent of criminal cases go to trial, so many prisoners may be innocent.
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What can you do?
Just be good to people you meet, and avoid tribalism. That’s about all you can do.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than “Try to be a little kinder”.
— Aldous Huxley
Counter-Propaganda
Short films
Books
Just as a white man has different skin color from a black man, so it is quite possible that he also has a somewhat different mind. But given what we know of evolution, it is not very likely. The evolutionary pressures that have shaped the human mind—principally competitive relations with kin members, tribal allies, and sexual partners—are and have been the same for white and black men and were at work before the ancestors of whites left Africa 100,000 years ago. While skin color is affected by things such as climate, which differs markedly between Africa and northern Europe, the shape of the mind is affected only very marginally by nonhuman problems such as what kind of game to hunt or how to keep warm or cool. Infinitely more important is how to deal with fellow human beings, and that is the same problem everywhere.
— Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Questions
Hey, Dan, what’s your race?
My parents are from Rajasthan, India. However, DNA testing shows I’m part Asian and Melanesian. So, like everyone else, I’m mixed.
Most non-white Americans have been abused (e.g. slavery, relocation, deportation, internment), so Americans are conditioned by decades or centuries of propaganda to label and mistreat them. Race is a product of violence, a contrived excuse for theft and murder.
But Indian-Americans have never been subject to a hate campaign by the American government, and I feel tolerated for who I am. I love America, and there’s little I wouldn’t do for my country.
I want more! Anything else I should read?
- “Candyman, Horror, and the Cinema of Black Pain” by Carvell Wallace
- “Latinos and Skin Color” by Luis Noe-Bustamente
- “The Forgotten History of the Purging of the Chinese from America” by Michael Luo
- “Surviving the Endless Waves” by Judy Kwon
- “Racist Love” by Frank Chin
- “The Racial Self-Identification of South Asians in the United States” by Ann Morning
- “A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination” by Marianne Bertrand
- “The ‘Becoming White’ Thesis Revisited” by Philip Yang
- “Implicit Association Test - Race” by Project Implicit
- “Automation and the Future of Work” by the Hipcrime Vocab
- “The White Ghost Dance” by the Hipcrime Vocab
- “My Life as a Statistic” by the Hipcrime Vocab
- “The Dying Russians” by Masha Gessen
- “Generation X Faces a Bleak, Impoverished Old Age” by Ted Rall
- “A Generation of American Men Give Up on College” by Douglas Belkin
- “I’ve Paid $18000 to a $24000 Student Loan. I Still Owe $24000.” by Kaitlyn Cawley
- “Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage” by Stephen Diehl
- “The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans” by Neal Gabler
- “The Death Spiral of an American Family” by Eli Saslow
- “We’re Watching the End of the Movies.” by Ross Douthat
- “How Profits From Opium Shaped 19th-Century Boston” by Martha Bebinger
- “The Great Chinese Art Heist” by Alex Palmer
- “What Really Happened to the USS Connecticut” by Congjing Yu
- “Yes, There Really Were Only Two COVID Deaths in Mainland China in 2021.” by Rosa Astra
- “China and Africa” by the Qiao Collective
- “An Epochal Decline in American Global Power” by Alfred McCoy
- “The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System” by Lyn Alden
- “Aleksandr Dugin’s Foundations of Geopolitics” by John Dunlop
- “Kissinger and the Fight for Russia” by Timofei Bordachev
- “India Is a Winner as EU’s Russia Oil Ban Redraws Energy Trade Map” by William Watts
- “SPIEF 2022 Remarks” by Vladimir Putin
- “Handle the India-U.S. Relationship With Care” by Walter Mead
- “India: Another China or Another Brazil?” by Michael Roberts
- “India’s Jobs Crisis Is More Serious Than It Seems” by Soutik Biswas
- “Wikipedia: A Disinformation Operation?” by Swiss Policy Research
- “Humanitarian Imperialism” by Alan MacLeod
- “War Is a Racket” by Smedley Butler
- “Hotel Propaganda: What Really Happened in Rwanda in 1994” by Antony Black
Thank you for reading!