Calling All White People, Part 32: Centering white mediocrity during Black History Month

Black and white image of telephone outside in the dark

Calling All White People, Part 32 (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: Did we really need an average white teen during …

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Can we at least stop the blackface this month?

It’s Back History Month and I am exhausted. The month designed to honor the achievements of Black folks has become the reminder of just how little progress we have made racially. In part because we actually haven’t made any progress. Rather than dealing with the horrible wallpaper and the horsehair plaster walls in this very …

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