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The White Moderate Strikes Again

Unless you’re Mel Brooks, race relations in America are as touchy as ever. Trying to address the implicit biases of white folks is only more problematic given t...

Undecided: The Fractured Moderate Democratic Base Makes Sanders Appealing

Initially, the Nevada debates exposed just how badly moderate Democrats are falling behind with minorities. While the focus on Mike Bloomberg took up a consider...

Bloomberg Supporters Are Toxic Too

Something that has become clear to me, an undecided voter, is that it’s not just Sanders’ supporters that are toxic on social media. Mike Bloomberg has created ...

Undecided: Every Democratic Candidate is Problematic

Republicans, particularly of the last several decades, have shown their lack of concern for poor and underserved communities. Many of you, like me, likely share...

Emboldened and Unhinged: Trump’s Machine is Just Getting Warmed Up

With the impeachment trial now America’s rear-view mirror Donald Trump and his attack dogs are going full throttle in seeking retribution against those who spok...

U.S. Supreme Court Allows Trump to Continue Targeting Migrants of Color

Trump’s “public charge” policy allows the administration to implement a rule denying legal permanent residency to certain immigrants who are deemed likely to ne...

Many Latinos Don't Trust Joe Biden Because of Barack Obama

As critics in the immigrant-rights community labeled Barack Obama as “deporter in chief,” enforcement advocates routinely accused him of being soft on unauthori...

Study: Black Teens Face Racial Discrimination Multiple Times Daily

Rutgers researcher says teens experience daily anti-black microaggressions. A recent study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology looked at how often Bl...

How to Stop Law Enforcement Reform: Lie

The biggest obstacle to law enforcement and criminal justice reform is willful disinformation campaigns led by many in the law enforcement community. Americans ...

Joe Biden's Unchecked Prejudice

During the third Democratic debate, Joe Biden was asked about past comments denying responsibility, as a white dude, to repair the legacy of slavery in America....

Racism and The Coup in Bolivia

The coup in Bolivia is largely driven by racism and classism hidden behind Christian theocracy. Despite Bolivian president Evo Morales being constrained to resi...

William Barr Wants Us to Blindly Respect Police

On Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr suggested communities who don’t show police respect don’t deserve police protection at all. It’s unclear what Barr’s i...

Migrant Children: An American Commodity

While migrant families continue to be separated with very little scrutiny, sheltering migrant children has become a cash cow for adoption agencies. Many of the ...

Blue Privilege

Police union contracts with cities all over the country offer many protections for officers facing complaints from the public for excessive use of force, corrup...

The Profiteering of Migrant Suffering

According to a recent Public Citizen analysis, ten large contracting firms working for federal agencies that implement federal immigration, corrections, and det...

Amber Guyger: Racist, Murderer, Cop

My latest: exploring the Amber Guyger case and the pervasiveness of conspiratorial corruption and racism in law enforcement and how we can begin to solve this r...

The Failure of Reuniting Migrant Families

If tech companies were to sever ties with government agencies, as the outrage culture on social media demands, how can we expect to reunite families without the...

Donald Trump's Southern Strategy

As I’ve discussed many times in my work, the racially-charged, divisive approach to politics that we see today isn’t new. Much of the language that is a constan...

Facebook's Racism Problem Isn't Going Away Anytime Soon

On the world’s largest social media platform, users routinely find adhering to Facebook’s seemingly trivial community standards burdensome. Far-right extremism,...

The Politics of Dog Whistles

“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump — I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — un...