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DEI Is the New Black

The demonization of anyone who is not white, straight and male is a tradition as old as America.

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Michael Harriot
Jan 29, 2025
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“Years ago, I did a terrible thing,” wrote activist writer, professor and feminist author Toni Cade Bambara.

In The Black Woman: An Anthology, Bambara describes reading a paper to one of her classes that referred to white people as “us” and Black people as “them.” After listening to phrases like “I don’t belie…

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