White people, it would seem, are seriously out-of-touch with the racial reality in America. But why? I grew up five minutes from the Aryan Nations compound in Northern Idaho in the 1990s. At the time, the compound was big news—attracting everyone from the national press to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Its founder, an old […]
This isn’t an intellectual game, and to see it as such means that you’re failing to acknowledge your privilege. To those white people who call out other white people on racism, whether face-to-face or on social media, who understand that it is not the job of people of color to convince white people that they […]
Hey, white people: When you find yourself in a room full of people who look like you, be the person to say, “We’re all white here. Don’t you think that’s a little weird?” As events in Ferguson, Los Angeles, Baltimore, all over this country will show, racism is alive and strong in this country. There […]
