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The Government Wants Americans to Report on Antiracist Activity … Again

The Trump administration is urging Americans to report on antiracist activity, echoing historical tactics like the Fugitive Slave Act and 1960s surveillance of civil rights movements. Ibram X. Kendi examines this pattern of turning citizens into informants to preserve racism in a new video commentary from The Emancipator.

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The Trump administration is trying to put everyone on patrol – serving and protecting racism. Americans are being ordered to report on their neighbors’ antiracist activity.

This takes a page out of an old racist playbook. From the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 to intelligence agencies infiltrating antiracist movements in the 1960s and recently, the U.S. government has long turned everyday Americans into informants to conserve racism.

Ibram X. Kendi breaks it down in this exclusive, new video commentary from The Emancipator.

The government wants Americans to report on antiracist activity … again

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Our mission, like those who came before us, is to leverage the power of journalism to turn public opinion against racist policies and ideas. We expose the history, harms, and pervasiveness of racial inequity and injustice in all aspects of life, and explore solutions for its abolition. From health disparities and the wealth gap to climate inequality and police violence, The Emancipator is confronting the biggest racial justice issues of our time.