Calling All White People, Part 49 TODAY’S EPISODE: It’s learn and reflect, not show and tell Welcome, my fellow white people, to Black History Month once again. We’ve all heard the joke: Black people get the shortest month of the year for their history month. We’ve all heard the complaint: Why isn’t there a …
We have a crime problem in the United States or, more accurately, a problem in the way we handle crime and so-called criminal justice—and the problem is very white. Before I get into that problem of color though—race, that is—let’s just talk about the scale of the problem in general. In the U.S., we incarcerate …
A few days ago I saw a tweet that I liked and immediately retweeted. Heck yes, Cori Bush and the point she made RULES! Then I felt a knot in my stomach. I didn’t know why, but I un-retweeted it and sat with the feelings. On the one hand, I’ve seen Cori Bush kicking *ss …