Barrett Holmes Pitner

Barrett Holmes Pitner is a politics and race-and-culture journalist, and the Founder and Philosopher-in-Chief of The Sustainable Culture Lab. He is based in Washington, DC. Follow him on Twitter @barrettpitner

GENTRIFICATION OF HISTORY

Developers Are Trying to Desecrate a Black Cemetery—Again

Bethesda’s predominantly Black community is fighting big business—and the government—on behalf of their departed ancestors.

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ROTTEN REEDEEMERS

The Klan Was the Original ‘Election Police’

Today’s Republican politicians are counting on ignorance of or apathy about that history as they try to create their own election-crime cop forces.

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‘LAWFUL CONQUEROR’

Kyle Rittenhouse’s Lethal Pursuit of Happiness is Our Legacy

His acquittal is only the latest reminder that life and liberty have always been about the protection of property.

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CRIME WITHOUT A NAME

The Missing Word for America’s Original Sin Is Ethnocide

The first step toward fixing a problem is naming it.

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‘NOBODY EVER HEARD OF IT’

Forget the Fourth of July—It’s Time to Celebrate Juneteenth

To create the freedom it’s promised, America must liberate itself from many of the lies we have long told ourselves.

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Developers Are Trying to Desecrate a Black Cemetery—Again

The Klan Was the Original ‘Election Police’

Kyle Rittenhouse’s Lethal Pursuit of Happiness is Our Legacy

The Missing Word for America’s Original Sin Is Ethnocide

Forget the Fourth of July—It’s Time to Celebrate Juneteenth

We Can Do to the Senate What Brits Did to the House of Lords

Obama Lays It on the Line While Trump SCREAMS ON TWITTER

It’s Time for All of America To Celebrate Juneteenth

‘I Can’t Breathe’ Is the New American Anthem

Ahmaud Arbery Video Exposes the Banality of American Evil