The AntiRacist Table

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On this day in 1866, a Texas law was approved authorizing county officials to employ incarcerated people in public works or lease them out to private employers for profit. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

I keep thinking of the nation’s repeated capitulation to the ugliness at its heart. Bent the knee to the slaveholding forces at the founding of the country. Bent the knee to the racist forces that killed Reconstruction. Bent the knee to the forces that undermined the social movements of the mid-20th century. And now they are preparing to bend the knee to the forces that gave us Donald Trump.

No one is denying the impact of inflation and economic hardships. But there is nothing about Trump’s economic agenda that will address that. He has been running a campaign primarily focused on culture wars. Now, all of sudden, what matters most about him are economic matters. Given me a freaking break.

So many white Americans want their illusions straight no chaser.

“The Second Lost Cause” (thank you Richard Slotkin). Now, like accounts of the Civil War where the cause of the war wasn’t the issue of slavery but the economy and states’ rights, the reason for Trump’s election isn’t his appeal to grievance, fear, and hatred, its inflation and the economy.

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On this day in 1889, a white mob took 18-year-old Orion “Owen” Anderson from jail in Leesburg, Virginia, and lynched him for allegedly frightening a white girl. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

My office has received multiple complaints of racist text messages sent to Black Marylanders, including school-aged children. These messages appear to be part of a nationwide campaign and are horrific and unacceptable. If you received one of these texts, please report it to your local law enforcement for tracking and to our Civil Rights Division for evaluation. There is no home for hate in Maryland.    For more information on reporting, please click here: marylandattorneygeneral.gov/press/2024/110…

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How Americans Voted in 2016/2020/2024 (Race/Ethnicity/Gender) cnn.com/interactive/20… h/t @DrTedJ

Historian Robin D.G. Kelley discusses Donald Trump's election victory and why the Democrats failed to mount a successful challenge.

On this day in 1931, a segregated Georgia hospital refused to admit Juliette Derricotte, Dean of Fisk University, and one of her students after a serious car accident. They both died as a result. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

"His weird gift is he knows what people really want." UNC professor Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) on how Trump won

White women did this. Or Hispanic men. Maybe it was inflation. Or Democrat messaging. Or Russia. Or Gaza. Or Jesus. We GOTTA blame someone, right? If you’re already tired of hearing why Kamala Harris lost, here’s a post-mortem on election post-mortems thegrio.com/2024/11/07/why…

We must not delude ourselves in this moment. Multiracial democracy in the United States is less than 60 years old. It has always been contested, often violently so. It has always been fragile. Since this nation's inception large swaths of white Americans -- including white women -- have claimed a belief in democracy while actually enforcing a white ethnocracy. In the face of shifting demographics where white Americans will lose their numeric majority, we see a growing embrace of autocracy to keep the "legitimate" rulers of this country in power. History teaches us that we are in a perilous moment.

We are already seeing the rationalizing of how we got here and the blaming of the political party that, though flawed, actually reflects multiracial democracy. We must resist this. Voters knew exactly who Trump was and chose him anyway. This is not about the so-called excesses of the left. As the NYT editorial board writes, Trump ran the "most racist, sexist, and xenophobic campaign in modern history." As NYT reporter Lisa Lerer wrote today, "This was a conquering of the nation not by force but with a permission slip. Now, America stands on the precipice of an authoritarian style of governance never before seen in its 248-year history." This is the unsparing truth that we must confront.

Black Americans vote like they vote not because they align with every single Democratic policy but because they understand this country with a clarity that can be challenging for people who have not had to live under apartheid in the U.S., who’ve never known what it’s like NOT to be able to cast a ballot, not to have rights of citizenship, not to be protected by this nation’s laws. Black Americans know American fascism because they lived under it — and that understanding overcomes any other policy choices that they might otherwise vote on. Black people uniquely understand this nation, and how awful it can get.

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"A dark day for America." Professors Carol Anderson and Michele Goodwin discuss Donald Trump's electoral victory and what it means for marginalized communities in the United States.