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Racial and Cultural

Calling All White People, Part 53: Too dark for some of ya?

June 4, 2021 by Average White Guy
old style corded black phone mounted on red paneled wall

TODAY’S EPISODE: Where’s the good news about race and Black people and stuff?    It’s too dark, man. It’s too grim. Why can’t you be more positive? Now, I don’t know how many people think this when they look at news about race and racism and Black people and Indigenous rights and all the rest, …

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Categories Commentary, Racial and Cultural

One year later and not much has changed

May 31, 2021 by Shay

As I write this post, it’s been one year since George Floyd was killed, sparking all kinds of protests nationwide and bringing attention to racist police brutality, systemic racism, and the importance of recognizing how Black lives have been devalued. And those protests were on a scale we really hadn’t seen before. It was a …

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Categories Activism, Current Events, Racial and Cultural, White folks

It’s not as simple as “cancel it all” or “cancel none of it”

May 23, 2021 by Shay

Unfortunately, there aren’t enough things in the world that are nicely cut-and-dried and you can simply slap a simple “yes/no” or “good/evil” on it. I feel pretty confident saying “Being a Nazi is just wrong period” but you don’t get too many of those in life. And that’s where I am with the whole “cancel …

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