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What Is Systemic Racism?
What Is Systemic Racism?
Demonstrators gather during protests over the shooting death of Daunte Wright by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota on April 17, 2021. (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)
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By Bari Weiss
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What Is Systemic Racism?

The longtime Democratic operative James Carville gives good quote, and yesterday was no different. In a conversation with Vox about Biden’s first 100 days he ended up mostly sounding off about the problem of what he calls “faculty lounge” politics:

You ever get the sense that people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordi…

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Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.

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