We must accept that before we can heal, and sadly white Americans have real trouble in holding the good and bad of our heritage. In the last few days, news of Hurricane Harvey’s destruction and the subsequent rescue efforts have replaced political scandals and social unrest at the top of the news cycle. First responders […]
Take down the statues honoring those who sought to tear apart our country during the Civil War. Take down the heinous Confederate battle flags. They hurt your fellow human beings. I don’t understand why you would need more explanation than that. The school in the small town where I live in Texas serves 305 students. […]
“If we wait for perfection, we will never break the silence. The cycle of racism will continue uninterrupted.” In the days following the attack on Charlottesville, I wanted to post something on Facebook that spoke out against racism and bigotry. And yet, I could not find my voice. True, I had an unusually busy workweek […]
Racist violence is as American as apple pie. Remember that Donald Trump froze funds that were supposed to go to groups fighting neo-Nazi violence. Remember that the Department of Justice recently announced that its civil rights division will be focusing its energies not on the precipitous rise in anti-black and anti-Muslim hate crimes that followed Trump’s election, but on “affirmative action […]
