Thinking about the Biden/Harris plan for Native Americans on Indigenous People’s Day seems meaningful. And it seems like a good plan. I am not Native, so cannot speak beyond what the people in this article said. However, I think this is a good re-start/re-beginning. I’d love to see something like a constitutional amendment that included…
Tag: white privilege
White Accountability to Black Lives
Much has been written in the last several weeks (and in fact, over the years and decades) about what white people can do to get in the struggle for full racial equity, how to be an ally, how to beef up their knowledge base. I don’t intend to rehash any of that. It is Googleable,…
Getting Free From White Supremacy and Racism in My Personal Lifescape
James Baldwin said, “To be a Negro In this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.” And goddam am I in a rage today! Not unlike the rage of the last 4 years under a genocidal, pathological liar, racist, white supremacist, forever impeached piece of shit…
A Partial List of Resources About Race, Racism, Critical Race Theory, and Other Things: Films, Books, Articles, Websites, Museums, Music, and Other Resources
Film/Television I am Not Your Negro (Prime and Netflix) The Hate U Give (Prime) The Uncomfortable Truth (Prime) Birth of a Movement (prime) Sis, You Okay? (Prime) The FBI’s War on Black America (Prime) The Aryans: The Madness of Racism (Prime) Two Black Men A Week (Prime) The Wire (HBO) Kill the Messenger (Netflix) Our…
A List of Readings, Movies, and Other Resources For People Wanting to Critically Engage
I have been asked by friends and family wanting to explore their white privilege and race issues the past several days, at first I thought that I would curate a list. Then I remembered/realized that many others have already created lists. I don’t feel that I need to rehash what has already been done. So maybe instead,…
Dormant Racism and Distrust
I am perhaps more angry than I have been in a very long time. And this anger comes from a much deeper place than any anger I have experienced before. And I am hurt. More hurt than I have been in a very long time and deeper than any hurt I have experienced before. And…
The Neon Red Warning Sign: Economically, Why Would Anyone Think Trump Will Make it Better?
First, I completely understand why so many people thought Trump was a good choice. Too many of us, including poor white folks specifically, are so disenfranchised from our political system and public life. People across the spectrum know our government is not working and has not been working for them, individually. Unless a person is…
The Fire in My Belly Has Been Lit Ablaze!!!
I am so angry, so very and deeply angry. And sad, very sad. I have struggled with my bi-racial identity all my life – never fully finding community within white society and never really knowing any black community. Even extended family members have worked to position me as somehow other to them and their own…
Grouchy in Paradise 