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Pride, Prejudice and Slavery: This Week in Race and Racism
Your weekend-ready, “Did you SEE that story?” cheatsheet
This week’s tour of race and racism news takes us from the English countryside to the world of “Quiet Storm” radio. The economic suffering of Black millennials, deadly environmental racism, and racist abuse on a college debate stage are also featured in this week’s roundup of stories you might have missed.
Pride and Prejudice (and Slavery)
A Jane Austen museum in Chawton, England has decided to include information about the Austen family’s ties to the slave trade. Austen’s father was trustee of a sugar plantation in Antigua, and many commonly used products in homes in Austen’s era were tied to slavery and colonialism (for example, tea, cotton and sugar). But predictably, the museum’s efforts to add context are being derided by the conservative outrage mill, with one U.K. tabloid accusing it of “woke madness.”
Bad news for Black Millennials
For all the crap we get from other generations, millennials really do have it tough. We’ve grown up amid near-constant war, generation-defining terror attacks and mass shootings, rising rates of inequality, real estate bubbles, economic downturns and stagnating wages combined with rising costs of living. And if…
