Farewell Column: Walking into the unknown
Editor's note: This column references instances of sexual assault, which may be triggering to some readers.
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Editor's note: This column references instances of sexual assault, which may be triggering to some readers.
Nobody is 'making' the coronavirus about race. In this chicken-or-the-egg scenario, COVID-19 is exposing racial inequities that already existed, not creating them. In short, the fact that African-Americans are contracting and dying from the novel coronavirus at higher rates is not due to a genetic predisposition, biological difference or individual behaviors.
To our readers:
Pete Buttigieg is the kind of gay who wouldn’t send you a face pic on Grindr.
Researchers at UNC recently contributed to a breakthrough that might have gotten us one step closer to eradicating HIV. Unfortunately, the director of the UNC HIV Cure Center, Dr. David Margolis, noted that we’re still pretty far from a pill that cures HIV.
If you re-posted the picture of those two kangaroos hugging, or a sad koala perched in front of a charred forest or that red-spotted satellite image of Australia recently, you were probably just virtue signaling.
Imagine living in a country where you could be fired for joining a softball league or wearing women’s clothing. That country could very well be the United States in a few months.
I’m so grateful to be the opinion editor this year, and I’m really excited to see how my writers and I will work to improve this desk. In years past, I’ve felt like the opinion desk hasn’t truly represented the opinions, perspectives and narratives of all of our readers. That said, my three major goals for this year are to increase community engagement, to sharpen the opinions we publish and to diversify our writing staff.
Morehouse College, an all-male, historically black college, recently announced that they’ve updated their gender identity policy to allow for the admission of transgender students.
After reading a letter to the editor this week questioning the place of biracial students in campus activism, I thought it was an important question that deserved to be expanded upon and hopefully answered to some degree. So I've reflected on my race, specifically how my race is perceived by others and how, if at all, it impacts the ways in which I form my racial identity.
Following reports by Think Progress which exposed Chick-fil-A’s continued donations to anti-LGBTQ+ organizations, many are up in arms against the fast food giant once again.
Evidence is mounting against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, who police arrested and charged on Thursday for staging a racist and homophobic attack against himself due to grievances over his salary and lack of publicity.
“You don’t fight when you feel really powerful, you fight when you feel like your power is being threatened," said sociologist Michael Kimmel.
This is why Kevin Hart’s gay jokes were never funny.
The plaintiff in the affirmative action lawsuit filed, with the help of Students for Fair Admissions, against UNC argued that he was barred access to an institution because of his race.
On February 24, the Academy Awards are going to be broadcast, likely with the same relative blandness of its past iterations. In an attempt to liven up this year’s ceremony, comedian Kevin Hart was contracted to host, until he was grilled for a series of homophobic tweets from his past. While the Oscars could admittedly use a little more flavor, if Hart was going to spice up the ceremony with unfunny homophobic jokes, I’m glad that he was benched this time around.
Last semester, I was depressed.
In school hallways, young white students greeted each other with the "Wakanda forever" gesture, prompting their Black classmates to pull down their lower lips to check for iridescent Wakandan lip tattoos. Obviously, they didn’t have them.