Atlantic Writer Claims Solar Eclipse Is ‘Racist’

Posted on August 22, 2017

A woman views a map showing the route of the sun crossing the United States during the Solar Eclipse Festival at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, California on August 19, 2017, two days before The Solar Eclipse on Monday August 21. / AFP PHOTO / FREDERIC J. BROWN (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)
Just before this week’s solar eclipse, a writer for the Atlantic implied the solar system was “racist” because the path of the eclipse fell across areas of the country populated mostly by white people.

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