Integration, Segregation, [De]Humanization
Dear PS 220 White Teachers Who Wore NYPD T-Shirts To School... It must have seemed like a fantastic idea when, despite warnings from the United Federation of Teachers, you all donned NYPD shirts and crowded in front of a camera for a smirking group [...]
By Rebecca Carroll | Originally Published at The Guardian. September 3. 2014 7.45 EDT Photographic Credit; Becoming close friends with black people may not occur to most white people at all. Unless it’s Beyoncé. Who doesn't want to be friends with her? Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA A system [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at Clutch Magazine. September 2, 2014 It makes sense that White people use completely illogical arguments to derail conversations about racism, because the current racial hierarchy reinforces White dominance and “White privilege”– so they benefit from it. What makes absolutely no [...]
Photograph; iStock Image | First Book. By Bree Ervin | Originally Published at Everyday Feminism and re-published at EmpathyEducates with their permission. August 30, 2014 Talking about race is challenging for many parents, especially White parents. There is a lot of fear and uncertainty about this topic [...]
One big happy family.Shutterstock By Christian Lander | Originally Published at Quartz. August 29, 2014 A few years ago, I wrote about white people and their love of “awareness” on my blog Stuff White People Like. The post talked about how white people loved awareness because it [...]
Phobias are lethal. This summer’s series of prominent killings of unarmed Black men, Michael Brown being the most covered, have forced me to come to terms with my own fear: I am an arachnophobe. A few nights ago, I noticed a dark spot in my [...]
Chicago’s ‘murder capital’ rep stretches the truth. By Salim Muwakkil | Originally Published at In These Times. August 28, 2014 | During a memorial service on July 20 in Chicago, Audry Miller mourns granddaughter Shamiya Adams, 11, who was killed by a stray bullet. (Photo by Scott [...]
By Michael Skolnik | Originally Published at Global Grind . August 20, 2014 | Michael Brown | Facebook I’ve never been pulled over by the cops when I hadn’t done anything wrong. I’ve never been asked for identification for no apparent reason. I’ve never been stopped and [...]
I never thought that my brother would be one of those police officers. He was supposed to be different because of me My white brother loved black people more than I did when we were growing up. As a black interracial child of the south [...]
