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Want to Be Less Racist? Move to Hawaii – NYT

The “aloha spirit” may hold a deep lesson for all of us. Read here.
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What Doctors Should Ignore—NYT

Sickle cell anemia was first described in 1910 and was quickly labeled a “black” disease. At a time when many people were preoccupied with an imagined racial hierarchy, with whites on top, the disease was cited as evidence that people of African descent were inferior. But what of white people who presented with sickle cell anemia? Doctors twisted themselves into knots trying to explain those cases away. White sickle
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What Biracial People Know

After the nation’s first black president, we now have a white president with the whitest and malest cabinet since Ronald Reagan’s. His administration immediately made it a priority to deport undocumented immigrants and to deny people from certain Muslim-majority nations entry into the United States, decisions that caused tremendous blowback. What President Trump doesn’t seem to have considered is that diversity doesn
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Can a dress shirt be racist?

(Original title: What size shirt do ‘Hispanics’ wear?) In 2008, an entrepreneur named Seph Skerritt was frustrated with the way he shopped for clothes. Then a student at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, he chafed at the time wasted while trying on garments in stores. Often, he thought, you settled on an ill-fitting item just to get the drudgery over with. While on an internship in Asia, Skerritt had enco
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