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 [...]
Photograph Credit; Shutterstock _Film Grain Filter By Alfie Kohn | Originally Published at Huffington Post. September 4, 2014 4:50 PM EDT Helicopter parents of college-age children are the folks we love to hate. A steady stream of articles and blog posts bristle with indignation over dads who [...]
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 [...]
Image courtesy of Tim Pierce | Creative Commons> By Paul Thomas, Ed.D., Furman University | Originally Published at the The Conversation. September 3, 2014 If you’re an eight-year-old living in Charleston, South Carolina, you’re soon going to need to study extra hard at reading. The US state [...]
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 [...]
