Those who don’t remember the past are indeed doomed to repeat it. The fascists are counting on it. But can we actually learn from our hardest histories instead? What do y’all think? 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Ben Railton

I know it was 4000 news cycles ago, but earlier this month the administration released a 162-page attack on the Smithsonian, featuring an argument that the Chinese Exclusion Act wasn’t based on racism. That pissed me off. My new column on the white supremacist hate & violence that built to the Act.🗃️