I Thought I Was Post-Racist
But yesterday proved me wrong, and I’m sad I could have grabbed the strap to my shoulder bag at any time The leather tote that held my small purse, laptop, iPad, and journal hung by one of its straps from…
Tag White privilege
MLK Day: Not Just Another Three-Day Weekend
Time for me to step up, finally I am a white person and sadly, I’ve acted like it Not a white supremacist, mind you, nor an active racist — though as Isabel Wilkerson points out in her life-changing book Caste: The Origins of…
My Invisible Shield
White privilege was invisible to me. Until it wasn’t. How do you know you’re white? This is a question the Executive Director of the Center for Social Justice at U.C. Berkeley, Savala Trepcynski, posed to a large, racially diverse group of…