Racism's A Drowning Man (Dragging Life Guards Under)

“The similarities between the slave patrols and modern American policing are too salient to dismiss or ignore. Hence, the slave patrol should be considered a forerunner of modern American law enforcement.”

“Haney López catalogues evolving dog-whistle topics as racism continues to adapt — the attack on public schools, the xenophobic warnings about competition from China, and even expanding the definition of 'white' to include Latinos much as it earlier expanded from a narrow Anglo-Saxon base to include southern Europeans.

The best antidote to this coded racism, the author concludes, is to call it out for what it is, ignoring the catcalls that doing so is playing the race card.”

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