Calling All White People, Part 9 (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 be the “color-blind” numbskull nor the “race fetishist” …
I have a confession. I am tired. After years of writing about racism in both Maine and America, combined with several years of running an anti-racism organization, I am tired. There is also the pesky fact that racism affects me personally as a Black woman. As a white colleague, author Debby Irving, once pointed out: …
Arizona has a history of not being very progressive. Banning ethnic studies classes and attempting to extend the bans to more institutions in various efforts from 2015-2017 and for the longest time refusing to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day (more on all that and more here). And now, this year, legislation passed in the …