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Ezra Klein • Why the Media Is So Polarized — And How It Polarizes Us
Stop thinking about your community as just an audience. Instead, treat these people as collaborators.
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
It seemed to Pierce, though, that the same technology that risked creating another generation of psychically damaged black children could also be used as a radical therapeutic intervention. As he told his colleagues within the Black Psychiatrists of America in 1970: “Many of you know that for years I have been convinced that our ultimate enemies an
... See moreUndark Magazine • The Forgotten Tale of How Black Psychiatrists Helped Make ‘Sesame Street’
These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to get their ideas across. If they want to tell the world a lie, they can tell it so well that it becomes the truth; and if I tell them that you're lying, they'll tell the world even if you prove you're telling the truth. Because it's the kind of lie they want to hear .
Ralph Ellison • Invisible Man
Journalists claim to be hearing “both sides” as though a binary opposition had been set down by some disinterested god. But it is the journalists themselves who are playing god—it is the journalists who decide which sides are legitimate and which are not, which views shall be considered and which pushed out of the frame. And this power is an extens
... See moreTa-Nehisi Coates • The Message
Adding insult to injury, we’re professionally trained and rewarded to make White people the default referent group that Blacks are measured against. In doing so, we acquire a tendency to center White people in our work.