“This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on race have changed before allowing them to read this classic work.” – Note at the beginning of Stories of the Pilgrimsby…
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Day 9 – Introducing Structural Racism to Kids
[blockquote cite=”James Baldwin, Go Tell It On the Mountain” type=”left”]She looked out into the quiet, sunny streets, and for the first time in her life, she hated it all – the white city, the white world. She could not, that day, think of one decent white person in the whole world. She sat there, and…
Day 8 – The Way the World Works
Day 7 – Links for Anti-Racism Work
A new thing I’ve been doing, when I become overwhelmed with all the bad news, is to find the people and groups that are doing good work. So as a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Ferguson, here are links and resources to people who are doing good anti-racism work, and also ways to keep up…
Day 6 – #Ferguson
This is an excerpt from Issue 1 of Walking Brave. #Ferguson has made it hard, if not impossible, for people to say ‘I didn’t know’. Maybe before, white people hadn’t really paid attention to ‘systemic racism’. Maybe you know people who actually describe it as – raise those fingers – “systemic racism” – because they…
White People, White Power, White Platform
The great thing about social media is that, if you want, you can get to know lots of different people. The not so always great thing is that it’s a very public venue. Which means that sometimes we get to put what we write about into public practice. Naming. Dismantling. Getting at the core of…
Justice System, My Ass. #Marissa418
“Prosecutors admit that they routinely charge people with crimes for which they technically have probably cause but which they seriously doubt they could ever win in court. They ‘load up’ defendants with charges that carry extremely harsh sentences in order to force them to plead guilty to lesser offenses and – here’s the kicker…
When I say ‘Most White Christians’…
The tendancy is to group people together. To use a broad brush. The tendancy is for most white Christians to brush things under the rug. When I say ‘most white Christians’, I mean everyone I know in person, except for a handful. When I say most white Christians, I mean how my FB feed is filled,…
A Little Peroxide for the White, Wounded Quest
‘But make no mistake. Privilege is real, and so is oppression. We live in the same country, in different worlds. The town of Ferguson is speaking up; this is the time to listen, and pray for justice.’ This is the time to listen, he says. Well then. Listen up. Racial work is hard. I’m kind…
Knowing the Underside of History
We are shaped by the stories we tell, by the unspoken plotlines that seep into us. Individually and collectively, the histories we know and the ones we don’t turn us into a specific kind of people. What do we choose to know? Why do we choose to remember? I’ve always loved history, especially American history. …