Nick Baumann |
I cover national politics and civil liberties issues for the Washington, DC bureau of Mother Jones. I have also written for The Economist, the Washington Monthly, the Atlantic, and Commonweal. Email me at nbaumann [at] motherjones [dot] com. |
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This graph shows the change in Americans’ attitudes toward interracial marriage over time. Was anyone else shocked by just how unpopular it was in 1958? I would have guessed more like 10 percent.
Gallup via The Monkey Cage.
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Notes The Playmaker Backs Gay RightsThis is nice.
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Notes"White Americans, in short, thought that anti-white bias was a greater societal problem by the ’00s than anti-black bias."I was honestly surprised to read this. Maybe I shouldn’t have been. Paging Louis C.K.: White Americans See Anti-White Bias on the Rise
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Notes"If you’re black or gay or Hispanic or female, all the money in the world wouldn’t make the 50s a great place to live your life." -
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Great 1998 Tom Toles cartoon, via Yglesias.
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Are whites racially oppressed?
CNN, this is a new low.
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Notes"The problem with the American labor movement in the 1930s wasn’t the philosophical and ethical foundation of collective bargaining for workers; the problem was that racism was really pervasive in all aspects of American life."
