Writings about Whiteness and Racism
If Black people gave up on white people as quickly as white liberals give up on Trump voters, white liberals wouldn’t have any Black friends to impress with their intolerance. https://www.startribune.com/readers-write-electoral-votes-election-aftermath-evictions/572996842/?fbclid=IwAR3-v_hNzjqNEZ1C25Q9RS7sR8D6i5Em6SaB7gkpXgkoX1Raysm5JX3ugtg (Scroll down to election aftermath)
Read More…70% of Covid-19 lives lost in Louisiana have been Black lives. Black people make up only 33% of the population. NPR interviewed Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican and a medical doctor, about the disparity. After listening this morning, I was compelled to deconstruct his avoidance of root causes and structural racism, despite his insistence […]
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Holocaust Memorial in Germany I don’t have a problem with the annual memorializing of 9/11. But last month marked the 400th anniversary of the beginning of slavery in the US, acknowledged only by some segments of the press and small memorials here and there. It would have…
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. Pema Chodron
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out of the white nest 