“People blackfacing with their emojis: What’s up with that?” That was a Facebook status I had recently posted. At the outset, I knew the post had the potential to spiral out of control, but I was genuinely curious. Shortly after I posted, people began putting in their two cents on the topic. For the most …
Calling All White People, Part 23 (A periodic attempt to mobilize white people for something other than supporting just other melanin-deficient folks and maintaining a status quo of a nation geared toward whiteness as the baseline and the norm) By An Average White Guy TODAY’S EPISODE: Don’t hold people of color hostage to your oversensitivity …
As someone who has written about racism since 2003 and been the head of an anti-racism organization since 2014, my focus on racism as a social ill is rarely personal. I couldn’t care less what individual white people think of me because, on a personal level, it’s rare that said person has the ability to …