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Opinion: Acknowledge the Need for Solidarity between the Asian American and Black Community

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Art by Brian Zhou Since the onset of the pandemic, crimes against Asian Americans rose by almost 169% across the largest cities in the United States during the past year, according to the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism. In March 2021, a 21-year-old white man became the face of violence against Asian Americans when he shot eight women at three different spas in … [Read more...] about Opinion: Acknowledge the Need for Solidarity between the Asian American and Black Community

Opinion: Take Down Monuments to Racism

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Art by Ally ArmstrongTearing down Confederate monuments is an important step to publicly reckon with the sin of slavery. Keeping those monuments up is a visual reminder of ongoing white privilege and white supremacy, which need to be destroyed along with the monuments. Allowing Confederate monuments to stand demonstrates political and moral hypocrisy in a nation that claims to … [Read more...] about Opinion: Take Down Monuments to Racism

Fight Stereotypes

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Art by Sybil ZhangFighting racism means more than just speaking out against its most obvious examples; it means taking responsibility for our own prejudices.Following the events in Charlottesville, thousands of people have spoken out to condemn racism and the actions of neo-Nazis. White supremacists are the "real enemy," according to Robert M. Sapolsky, who argued people must … [Read more...] about Fight Stereotypes

Don’t Shout at Ignorance

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Graphic by Nate Barton How should the public respond to White supremacist events like the Charlottesville rally? With a topic like this, it is easy to be consumed with anger, but the appropriate response is one of non-violence. Symbols such as the Confederate flag and the swastika are enough to make people enraged. However, when the protests turned violent and resulted in … [Read more...] about Don’t Shout at Ignorance

Accidents Are Not Excuses

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Graphic by Nate BartonMy stomach churned as I scrolled through headline after headline bashing Jews, Blacks and immigrants. The only exceptions were articles that were too busy praising Anglo-Saxon superiority. I felt sick.A few hours after the Sept. 8 edition of the Graphic was distributed, I received an email from a coworker saying we had accidentally published an ad from a … [Read more...] about Accidents Are Not Excuses