Nylah Burton is a sexual assault survivor advocate and a student from Howard University. Follow her on Twitter, @yumcoconutmilk.
Nylah Burton
By Nylah Burton
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Opinion White Jews: Stop Calling Yourselves “White-Passing”
A couple of nights ago, I was walking to my apartment with a friend, who is an Ashkenazi Jewish woman. My Denver neighborhood is aggressively white, and I live with a white roommate. So needless to say, with my brown skin and my natural coils, I usually stick out like a drop of oil in…
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Opinion It’s Our Civil Right To Be Uncivil In The Age Of Trump
Ever since Sarah Huckabee Sanders, President Trump’s press secretary, was booted out of a restaurant for lying to the American people about the president’s policy of tearing babies from their mothers’ arms, calls for civility have populated the op ed pages of the country’s biggest papers. Even the editorial board at the Washington Post published…
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Opinion Commentary’s Race Baiting Of Blacks And Jews Is So 1963. Literally.
A few weeks ago, I chastised journalist and progressive activist Shaun King for perpetuating a false binary between Blacks and Jews that erases my identity as a Black Jew. Just two weeks later, the conservative magazine Commentary did the exact same thing. On Friday, Commentary published a shockingly tone-deaf and inflammatory cover that screamed, “African…
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Opinion We’re In A State Of Moral Emergency. Jews Must Join The Fight.
I firmly believe that fighting for the human rights of immigrants and refugees is the moral responsibility of every single U.S. citizen. Recognizing this inalienable truth — that protecting the most vulnerable among us is our collective duty — has never been more urgent. The Jewish story is also one of immigration and of forced…
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Opinion Memo To Shaun King From A Black Jew: Stop Dividing Our Communities
Hey, Shaun. I know you’re having a problem with Jews right now, or “drowning in tweets from Jewish folk” as you put it in a tweet this week. It wasn’t the first time. On March 2, you tweeted a defense of Tamika Mallory, saying that calling her anti-Semitic was “not just a lie, it’s lazy.”…
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Community I Am Tired Of Being a White Woman’s Axe To Grind
Carey Purcell was cemented into Jewish Twitter history when The Washington Post published her op-ed, “I am Tired of Being a Jewish Man’s Rebellion.” With no consideration of the complex nature of romance or any analysis of her own shortcomings, Queen Christina Becky Gilmore dove straight into a millennia-old tradition — blaming the Jews. Purcell’s…
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Letters To My Black Brothers And Sisters: I’m Black And Jewish. Farrakhan Is Bad For Us All.
To My Black Brothers And Sisters: I truly don’t understand how anyone in a position of social justice leadership could support or excuse Louis Farrakhan (I refuse to grant him the the honorific of Minister), and it makes me incredibly angry. I also don’t understand how people in the black community continue to support him….
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