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Why ‘Karens’ Are a Threat to Racial Progress From Ida B. Wells to Emmett Till to the ‘Karens’ of today, the trope of white women in danger has been used to harm Black people. I have white women in my life whom I like and love but, for some white women, a predatory element lingers just under the surface of their smiling faces. Because in many ways, white womanhood is the secret weapon in the perpetuation of white supremacy: When a white woman feels “unsafe”—particularly in situations that involve a  Black woman conscious of an injustice or a Black male sim...

Robert E. Lee monument, Richmond, Virginia, 2020. Photograph by Joseph. Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). Criticism of the Lost Cause and Confederate symbols stretched back as early as 1870, when Frederick Douglass called out the “ nauseating flatteries of the late Robert E. Lee” that poured in after the Confederate general’s death, asking, “Is it not about time that this bombastic laudation of the rebel chief should cease?” Until his death in 1895, Douglass engaged in an uphill battle to dislodge the Lost Cause narrative that had gripped the national consciousness while still seeking to pr...

My Turn: Denying the Revolution mactrunk Published: 4/12/2021 4:08:25 PM The new Georgia law placing restrictions on voting has predictably — and justifiably — generated a great deal of moral outrage across the nation. The law limits early voting, and increases the power of the Republican legislature to interfere in locally run elections. These measures are based on the totally unsupported theory that the 2020 election witnessed significant voter fraud. The bizarre provision of the Georgia law that appears to make it unlawful to bring water to a potential voter waiting on line has been ...

To the editor: Any informed reflection on our nation’s past reveals that the “good old days” weren’t so good for all of those who call themselves Americans. Any such reflection clearly reveals an ever present campaign to consciously marginalize targeted groups of Americans in order to ensure the economic advantage of others. Empirical evidence to support the existence and magnitude of this chronic social malignancy abounds, yet many Americans prefer to believe that they are completely “self-made” men and women; long-suffering triumphant warriors on the battlefield of capitalism. ...

April 6, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Black voters waiting to get into the Haywood County Courthouse in Tennessee to register to vote in 1960. Credit...Walter Sanders/The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images The laws that disenfranchised Black Americans in the South and established Jim Crow did not actually say they were disenfranchising Black Americans and creating a one-party racist state. I raise this because of a debate among politicians and partisans on whether Georgia’s new election law — rushed through last month by the state’s Republican legislature and signed by Gov. Bri...