My father had a saying: “You wanna talk to somebody, you gotta meet them where they are… But some muthafuckas are just too far away.” This saying applies to a lot of situations, but he would use it most often when it came to talking to white people about race. Talking to white people about …
(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: Sorry, but white people don’t get to define what is racist [To find other …
I wrote my first piece on race in the fall of 2003. My mother was dying but she did live long enough to read a few of my pieces in both the Portland Press Herald and the Portland Phoenix. At the time, I had no idea that writing about racism would fundamentally change my life. …