The right doesn’t care about people of color adopting a victim mentality. They simply wish to avoid a discussion of injustice, because such a discussion might lead us to do something to actually rectify it.
Black Kids Aren’t ‘Illegitimate,’ Your Data Comprehension Is: Racist Lies About Out-of-Wedlock Birthrates
Critiques of black culture that rely on tropes about out-of-wedlock childbearing are false. And racist.
Critiques of black culture that rely on tropes about out-of-wedlock childbearing are false. And racist.
No, Not Everyone Felt That Way: Racism, Rationalization and the Potential of White Allyship
Even at age six I understood that the “everyone does it” defense wasn’t exactly compelling.
Even at age six I understood that the “everyone does it” defense wasn’t exactly compelling.
Weaponizing Appalachia
Race, White Privilege and Denial in America
Race, White Privilege and Denial in America
Stop Lying to Yourself: When You Snub Panhandlers, It’s Not ‘For Their Own Good’
The choice to withhold money is about moral judgment: the idea that the poor have not done enough for you so as to justify receipt of even your spare change.
The choice to withhold money is about moral judgment: the idea that the poor have not done enough for you so as to justify receipt of even your spare change.
Europe Didn’t Send their Best Either: Reflections on ‘Illegal’ People (and Forgetful Ones)
Racists are not very original. It is always about the dominant group telling those with less power that they are not as good, not as clean, not as moral, not as human in some way.
Racists are not very original. It is always about the dominant group telling those with less power that they are not as good, not as clean, not as moral, not as human in some way.
The System Was a Steroid: Race, Performance Enhancement and the Baseball Hall of Fame
We never question the accomplishments of those with names like DiMaggio, Williams, Ruth and Cobb, who benefited from a greater “performance enhancement” than steroids: namely, the racist exclusion of black athletes from the major leagues.
We never question the accomplishments of those with names like DiMaggio, Williams, Ruth and Cobb, who benefited from a greater “performance enhancement” than steroids: namely, the racist exclusion of black athletes from the major leagues.
Cheap White Whine: Racism, Affirmative Action, and the Myth of White Victimhood
Despite years of so-called reverse racism, whites remain atop every indicator of social and economic well-being.
Despite years of so-called reverse racism, whites remain atop every indicator of social and economic well-being.
Your ‘Black Friend’ is Not an Alibi: White Deflection and the Reality of Racism
If I hear one more transparently racist white person insist they aren’t racist because they have black friends, I’m going to punch them in the face. But I’m not violent! After all, I have friends who are pacifists.
If I hear one more transparently racist white person insist they aren’t racist because they have black friends, I’m going to punch them in the face. But I’m not violent! After all, I have friends who are pacifists.
White Denial is an American Tradition: It’s Time to Bury It
When system works to your benefit, taking that system for granted becomes second nature.
When system works to your benefit, taking that system for granted becomes second nature.
I Was No Angel Either (For Those Who Still Deny White Privilege)
We cannot continue to hide behind a veil of innocence or silence about our own misdeeds, thereby allowing the conventional wisdom about criminality to remain unsullied.
We cannot continue to hide behind a veil of innocence or silence about our own misdeeds, thereby allowing the conventional wisdom about criminality to remain unsullied.
Men Rarely Learn What Women Can’t Forget
A 30-second elevator ride and the depths of male obliviousness.
A 30-second elevator ride and the depths of male obliviousness.