Category: racism
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Sesame Street got it wrong
The results of the 2020 census are in. We know approximately how many Americans identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian, White, Other. Interesting, but relevant? I sometimes wonder if we’re wired to differentiate. Over here are plants. Some can heal your wound, some are tasty, and some are pretty to gather. Over here are animals. Some…
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RBG, Donald Trump. and me
You’ll be excused for thinking that Donald Trump, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and I had little in common. But last week’s news of RBG’s death and Trump’s announcement that he’ll form a 1776 Commission tasked with promoting patriotic education left me thinking about how all three of us grew up studying the same version of American…
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Since Charlottesville, #2
The violence in Charlottesville forced me to rethink my disengagement since Election 2016. How ashamed I am that as a straight white woman I had the luxury of considering my anger an inconvenience.
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Since Charlottesville
I thought I was doing the right thing, being silent these past seven months. Saturday’s violence in Charlottesville challenged that notion.
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I didn’t know: racial violence out Route 50
If growing up white in a segregated society enforced by violence is a credential for being a Southerner, then I’m a Southerner. As an adult in the era of Trump, though, I will not remain unaware of violent racism that has been unleashed.
Nancy Werking Poling 