Feature
Quartz
Leave it to a British comic to school us all on the least talked-about
race problem in America—well, except the millions of Americans
living in Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana
Islands, and American Samoa.
John Oliver’s recent viral video about the Insular Cases, and their
role in this country’s ugly racial past entertained and shocked a lot
of Americans, just hours after President Obama told a crowd
gathered in Selma that “our work is never done.”
Oliver’s wit, framed around Obama’s words, created a perfect storm
of discovery. Though, you would think, in 2015, this wouldn't seem
so surprising—yes, the American government was blatantly racist
toward peoples conquered as spoils of...[CONTINUE READING]
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