Category Archives: Racism

Discrimination against people of color

When Will Black Lives Matter in America?

Image: Khafre Jay of Hip Hop for Change performs at a rally in Oakland, California.

In today’s post on Medium, I discuss the recent killings of Jordan Neely and Banko Brown in the context of anti-Blackness in the U.S.


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Guns, Racism, and Respectability Politics

Image description: Two black and white T-shirts reading “Black Lives Matter”. On one of the shirts, the letters in the slogan are made out of the names of Black victims.

Today’s post on Medium is my response to the recent shooting of Black teen Ralph Yarl.

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Black Lives Do Not Matter to American Cops

Image description: A chalked message on the sidewalk reads “BLACK LIVES MATTER BLUE LIVES MURDER”.

Today’s post on Medium is my response to the news of police officers in Antioch exchanging racist text messages.

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Mixed-Race and Rootless

Pax at age 10 (summer of 1980), with their hair in two braids and wearing a Bassett Wild Animal Farm T-shirt, sitting in the grass and being happily nibbled on by baby goats.

In today’s post on Medium, “Mixed-Race and Rootless”, I reflect on my Black and white Jewish ancestry and failure to fit in. This is the first part of a series of reflections on last month’s Creating Change Conference.

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Police Are the Mass Killers We Should Be Worried About

Benjamin Bac Sierra speaks at a podium alongside other Latino and Black activists at a San Francisco rally against police violence, March 2016.

Today’s post on Medium is “Police Are the Mass Killers We Should Be Worried About“.

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Don’t Defund, Dismantle.

[Image: Black and white line drawings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, two of many victims of anti-black racism and police violence in the United States. From the Justice For Our Lives portrait series by Oree Originol.]

Today’s post on Medium, “Don’t Defund, Dismantle“, is about radical action to end white supremacy.