Posts Tagged ‘white privilege’
Words of advice for White would-be writers on race
Lisa Solod Warren’s December 16th, 2009 article (which has since been deleted) in The Huffington Post titled Two Black Role Models Done In By Hubris invoked a great deal of outrage. I caught wind of the article via Twitter where people were expressing emotions ranging from utter dismay to outright...
January 4th, 2010 | Featured | Read More
Ending racism starts with educating youth
Engaging with issues regarding race and racism are critical in the fight for social justice. Due to the inherent complexities of such discussions, they easily become minefields for those who would casually wander such terrain. Two salient examples of such dilettantism from this past week are Lisa Solod...
December 22nd, 2009 | Talk About Race | Read More
“Keep your #blackthoughts to yourself”: The Privilege of Twitter
A short time ago, when #blackthoughts was trending on Twitter, I clicked through, intending to read a few…well, black thoughts. Instead, I was greeted by a tweet from @LadyFrills (whose icon looks like a white woman) that was so stunning in its explicit expression of white privilege that I just...
December 3rd, 2009 | Talk About Race | Read More
White Man’s Burden Redux: The Movie!
As I am typing this, I am five hours and 25 minutes into a 15+ hour trip on a slow train to Baltimore. I’m on en route to D.C. to interview sociologist and author Dr. James Loewen for my documentary film, A Past, Denied: The Invisible History of Slavery in Canada. This interview is two years in the...
December 3rd, 2009 | Culture, Pop culture | Read More
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Black like me, white like thee
January 9, 2010 15:01
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Spiritually Liberal, Socially Conservative
January 8, 2010 05:01
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Notes toward a primer on helpful race talk
January 7, 2010 11:01
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Countdown to 2050: Equity in America
January 7, 2010 06:01
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Resolutions, experiments for a new year
January 4, 2010 11:01
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Andrew Grant-Thomas: Thanks for the reply, Mike. I absolutely agree about the trickiness of getting the "talk" part right, and yet at least w...
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Andrew Grant-Thomas: Hi Gyasi-- as the deputy director of the Kirwan Institute, host of Race-Talk, I can tell you this: to the degree that yo...
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lisasolod: Mike. Sorry the conversation hasn't gone as you wanted.... and sorry I haven't been abject enough in my culpability for ...
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Mike Barber: Greetings sb84, thanks for commenting. I'm not sure I am following what you mean about the disagree/understand thing. Ca...
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Mike Barber: Well said. I couldn't agree more that dialogue is only the beginning. It's the first milestone of a much longer process....
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Racial Profiling – Not Just for Middle-aged Elite University Professors Any More!: Originally published on Imagine 2050 Exhibit 1: Florida kindergartner (African American) acts up in class (kicking, scratching). School officials call the police, wisely concluding that doze...
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Not everybody loved hominid fossil “Lucy”: It’s 150 years later, and we’re still debating Darwin’s good old Origin of Species. A new exposition center, The Discovery Times Square Exposition, was launched in New York City, and featured the 3...
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Dee Brown’s book on its 40th anniversary: When Dee Brown wrote his book, “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” he could not have known that it would become a classic. This year an illustrated 40th anniversary edition was published in hardback. ...
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Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize: But It’s Up to Us to End This War By Julianne Hing, RaceWire From President Obama’s speech to accept the Nobel Peace Prize today: There will be times when nations — acting individually...
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Things that make you go hmmm…: I’ve recently been thinking about concepts like priorities, standards, representation, and fairness—not in any in-depth kind of way, rather anecdotally and informally. The whole Roman Polanski sit...
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