I want my sons to realize that racial relations in our country need healing. I want them to bear the responsibility and burden to help. Race relations in this country are broken. This simple fact, we all know, is black and white. I desperately want our nation to be reconciled. Honestly speaking, my power in […]
Finally, the place where I live is making a public admission that I’m welcome here. The last few weeks have felt like a train moving through the night without interior or exterior lighting. I’m not sure if the destination has been fully revealed, but as I sat in my 4-year-old son’s room a couple of […]
I can’t change our genders or sexual orientations. I can’t change our skin colors. But I can change my children’s perceptions, give them gratitude for their privilege and anger for injustice, and teach them to use those feelings as tools. I am a straight, white parent. I sit in my position of privilege and peer […]
