Aaron Ross Coleman
@arcwrites
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I write about race + economics
Atlanta
Joined April 2012
My latest piece in @voxdotcom explores how America’s racial hierarchy stratifies such that black lives regularly rank below the value of their white counterparts, under that of private property and, as witnessed in the mad dash to reopen stores, beneath that of corporate profits.
How slavery frames Ahmaud Arbery’s death and the black Covid-19 morbidity crisis
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Just because @DrIbram wrote HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST, doesn’t mean he's done learning or teaching. In fact, he’s only just getting started. Learn more about Dr. Kendi's antiracist journey in @WSJ. https://t.co/Q6efQKbDfr
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He wrote a history of racist ideas and the blockbuster How to Be an Antiracist, but that doesn’t mean Kendi is done learning or teaching. In fact, he’s only just getting started.
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For generations, black owned bookstores have functioned as bastions of racial consciousness and activism. In this moment of reckoning, proprietors like @blkkatie, amid spiking demand, remain focused on radicalism and liberation. "I'd much rather George Floyd be alive" says Katie.
For your weekend reading from @NPRCodeSwitch Many independent, Black owned bookstores are busier than they have ever been. And, while that’s wonderful — store owners tell us they have complicated feelings about their recent success. https://t.co/hwY3I9TXkA
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“The krusty krab is unfair, mr krabs is in there! Standing at the concession, plotting his opression!”
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“Mr. Lopez is seen handcuffed while pleading repeatedly in English and Spanish for water and for his nana, or grandmother....Mr. Lopez, who was unclothed and seemed to be acting erratically when the officers arrived at the scene.”
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ICYMI: COVID-19 is ravaging America’s vulnerable Latino communities (via @AP)
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GUADALUPE, Ariz. (AP) — A Hispanic immigrant working at a fast-food restaurant in North Carolina is rushed to the hospital after she contracts COVID-19.
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For now, newsrooms are reckoning with how racism impacts the country, but they also must wrestle with how racism impacts themselves. It's time they see black writers as essential, and black people as newsworthy. FIN
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Much of my own experience reflects this. I've heard journalism isn't for me, I should go work at a nonprofit, I don't have the talent, and so many other rebukes more times than I care to count. It's a full story for another day.
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Mychal Denzel Smith perfectly captured the dismal state of working as a black journalist explaining that "As a writer, I have spent more time asking white people to see me as human than I have thinking about the world I would like to live in." https://t.co/hLjGppfbmu
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I often wonder how many Cases for Reparations and 1619 Projects the journalism industry has snuffed out because of its reluctance to embrace black narratives.
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Journalism's racism grinds the spirit of the very best black writers. Both, MacArthur winners, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nikole Hannah Jones weighed quitting due to the industry's neglect and disdain.
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Five years ago, Nikole Hannah-Jones was thinking about quitting. “I only became a journalist because I wanted to write about racial inequality,” she told professor Keith Gessen in front of a gather...
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Black people remain grossly underrepresented in journalism. There is no excuse—no pipeline problem. Black American culture exults literacy with near-religious zeal, and the black press stretches back to the age of abolition. https://t.co/Yq5jYDPPwg
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So I recently started a new job as a politics reporter at Vox! (peep my recent clips!) Very excited about it, and I reckoned this is an opportune time to talk about the hurdles I faced getting here, and how racism stops so many super talented writers from getting jobs like mine!
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The share of time police devote to handling “violent crime is very small, about 4 percent.” https://t.co/JquF2iBt7e
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You should go check it out though, and let me know what you think. https://t.co/hfB13wtLta
There's much more in this essential essay by @arcwrites. Read it in full:
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Meanwhile, most Americans think the racial wealth gap has been shrinking since the Civil Rights Movement when it's actually been expanding! It's wild! https://t.co/1BZffbARoh
Americans underestimate the black-white wealth gap by about 80 percent — and are underestimating it by more over time. https://t.co/FUuTMAWcYG
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