[blockquote type=”center”]”On July 4, 1910, for example, black heavyweight Jack Johnson defeated Jim Jeffries, the ‘Great White Hope,’ in Reno, Nevada. African Americans rejoiced in the victory of one of their own, until they came up against the response of white Americans to Jeffrie’s defeat. Whites attacked African Americans in at least 30 American cities….
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An Integrated Life – What Are You Known For Supporting?
[blockquote type=”left”]”Many white liberals in sundown towns and suburbs worry about social ostracism, so their anti-racism never gets voiced beyond the confines of home….Many residents of sundown towns expressed displeasure with their town’s anti-black policies when they talked with me. Their disapproval seemed sincere, but they never mentioned voicing such sentiments to their fellow…
An Integrated Life – All Whites Are Responsible
[blockquote type=”left”]”When one member of the black community was lynched, all African Americans took that as a threat to their continued well-being. Often they were right…..A lynching by definition is a public murder. Those who carry it out do not bother to act in private, since they believe the community will support them. Thus…
An Integrated Life – What Are We Taught Is Normal?
[blockquote type=”center”]In Harrison, Arkansas, in 1905, white “rioters swept through Harrison‘s black neighborhood with terrible intent. The mob of 20 or 30 men, armed with guns and clubs, reportedly tied men to trees and whipped them, tied men and women together and threw them in a 4-foot hole in Crooked Creek, burned several homes, and…
An Integrated Life – Our Racist Foundations
I’m starting a new series for a month or so based on the book Sundown Towns, and how we can use it to inspect the whiteness of our lives. It will feature several short posts, and hopefully it will give you a good feel for the book, especially for the people who don’t have time to…
An Integrated Life – A Series
I’m starting a new series for a month or so based on the book Sundown Towns, and how we can use it to inspect the whiteness of our lives. It will feature several short posts, and hopefully it will give you a good feel for the book, especially for the people who don’t have time to…
Solidarity and Poverty
[blockquote type=”center”]What does solidarity with the poor look like when you’re trying to avoid generational poverty?[/blockquote] This is a question I’ve been sitting with for awhile now. And I read this article earlier today that made me think some things. I was born in 1981, so I’m just barely a millennial, and my…
How To Be A Racial Accomplice In Only 80 Easy Steps!!!
I hope it goes without saying, but when you spend 33+ years being white, in white culture, spending only a couple of years learning about race is a drop in the bucket. But after having a few different conversations over the past few weeks, my journey so far has been swirling around in my head and I wanted…
Untangling the Threads
Guess who has no idea on what’s appropriate for a college admission’s essay? This girl! I started writing and remembered this post from a couple of years ago, and updated and edited it, and this is roughly what I handed in. I’m sure it could be better, especially now that I’m re-reading it after I…
The Commoditization of Social Relationships
[blockquote type=”center”]“The Solomonic establishment embodies the loss of passion, which is the inability to care or suffer.” (The Prophetic Imagination 41) [/blockquote] “The first transcontinental railroad was built with blood, sweat, politics and thievery, out of the meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads. The Central Pacific started on the West Coast going…