Starting down the path to embracing our history of White Supremacy
Starting down the path to embracing our history of White Supremacy
April 18, 2023
Several years ago, I participated in a reading gro —>> read more –>>
April 18, 2023
Several years ago, I participated in a reading gro —>> read more –>>
September 27, 2017
Read the keystone essay – Racism in America – Whit —>> read more –>>
August 15, 2017
Viewed from a bit longer lens of history this reaction to white supremacist terrorism fits in very well with the lengthy history of Presidents, Congress, and the judicial branch turning a blind eye to white terrorism used as a tool to oppress African Americans during the so-called Jim Crow era.
August 13, 2017
Ira Katznelson (see my earlier post “Affirmative Action for Whites – began in the 1930s”) wrote a brief opinion piece in the 8/13/2017 NYTimes, “Making Affirmative Action White Again” that encapsulates the real history of affirmative action for whites.
July 12, 2017
Government, Federal, state and local took affirmative actions to set up and sustain segregation that is clearly unconstitutional and illegal. The de jure nature of the history then puts the burden on the government, our government, to remedy the situation.
July 3, 2017
(Go to the posts on Racism – White Supremacy in Am —>> read more –>>
June 14, 2017
Notices of runaways slaves from the Hudson River Valley. Many were notices from slave owners in Hudson and Columbia County dating roughly from 1795 to 1840. Northerners may think that slavery was a Southern institution, but this history casts a decidedly different picture.
October 7, 2014
this transformation in attitudes towards homosexuality should be studied so that we can understand how and why it took place. Perhaps we can learn some lessons that will enable us to attack some of the other destructive hatreds shared so broadly by human beings.
October 10, 2010
Isabel Wilkerson’s book, The Warmth of Other Suns —>> read more –>>
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