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<title><![CDATA[Michael Harriot - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/32186.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Harriot]]></description><category domain="32186">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Black Lives, Palestinians, &amp; the Voices of the Oppressed]]></title>
							<link>https://thegrio.com/2023/10/19/black-lives-palestinian-people-and-the-voices-of-the-oppressed/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Harriot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is possible to mourn the victims of Hamas violence and support the rights of the Palestinian people. Silencing those voices is a tool of oppression]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's No Such Thing as 'Race Neutral']]></title>
							<link>https://thegrio.com/2023/06/30/theres-no-such-thing-as-race-neutral/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Harriot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In striking down affirmative action, the Supreme Court accepted the absurd notion of a theoretical colorblind country that could never exist.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Woke' Is the Opposite of Whiteness]]></title>
							<link>https://thegrio.com/2023/06/02/woke-is-the-opposite-of-whiteness/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Harriot</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'And I thought personally, there was too much Black history,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' she said.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Firing White Teachers Is a Great Idea]]></title>
							<link>https://thegrio.com/2022/08/19/the-whitelash-behind-minneapolis-plan-to-fire-white-teachers-explained/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Harriot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While conservative media has characterized the Minneapolis teachers union's agreement as an anti-white civil rights crisis, firing white educators is actually a step towards equity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Oppressors Like Tim Scott Aren't Born, They're Made]]></title>
							<link>https://thegrio.com/2022/04/21/are-you-an-oppressor-a-quiz/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Harriot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[U.S. Senator Tim Scott spoke at a seminar on the risk of teaching kids that they are oppressors.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' TheGrio's satirical quiz predicts a child's proclivity for becoming a Republican-certified oppressor.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The False Fantasy of Funding the Police]]></title>
							<link>https://thegrio.com/2022/03/15/the-false-fantasy-of-funding-the-police/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Harriot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, in a not-so-far-away kingdom built on folklore and fantasy, the citizens believed things.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real MLK Would Make White People Uncomfortable]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/17/mlk-is-revered-today-but-the-real-king-would-make-white-people-uncomfortable</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Harriot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr was a walking, talking example of everything this country despises about the quest for Black liberation]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In America, White Reasoning Rules]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/19/kyle-rittenhouse-conviction-america-white-privilege</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Harriot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When white people find Black protesters scary, and white vigilantes heroic, where does that leave the legal concept of 'reasonable belief'?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Maybe White People Should Feel Bad]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theroot.com/maybe-white-people-should-feel-bad-1847918518</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Harriot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In her appearance on The View, Condoleezza Rice argued that teaching kids about racism and inequality would make them feel bad. Why shouldn't they?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Maybe America Is Racist]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theroot.com/maybe-america-is-racist-1846667213</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Harriot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, while covering a story on Republican New Hampshire legislator Werner Horn, I summoned the best and brightest scholars that America had to offer. Horn, who represents his 95.9 percent white hometown in his state's House of Representatives, confounded people who actually...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Our House, Dr. Seuss Was Contraband]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/my-mother-found-dr-seuss-book/618225/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Harriot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My mother went to enormous lengths to protect her family from negative stereotypes of Black people.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America is America-ing Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theroot.com/what-to-do-when-your-country-turns-into-a-dumpster-fire-1845248444</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Harriot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America is America-ing again.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' As a certain coronavirus-y occupant of the White House brazenly intensifies his all-out assault on the Constitution, media, truth, law, order, equality, democracy and everything this beloved country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' supposedly'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' stands for, our fellow Americans find...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Is What They Meant By 'Great Again']]></title>
							<link>https://www.theroot.com/this-is-what-they-meant-by-great-again-its-2018-and-am-1828275682</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Harriot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's 2018 and America Is Preparing for a Nazi Attack.]]></description>
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