At the colossal Sparrows Point steelworks on the outer shores of Baltimore harbor, founded in 1887, black men long fed the sweltering ovens and furnaces while white men ran the finishing mills that produced gleaming coils of steel, tin, nails, wire and pipe.
She says it is time to watch a video called "Struggle for Identity." In the video, people tell their stories, stories like the ones in the room. A black woman who was adopted by white parents boils it down: "Don't think you can make black friends after you adopt a black child.
How racist of Limbaugh to see a Black man showing support for another Black man and to automatically assume it's all about skin colour.
This is a viral email I got from an Obama supporter. Attributed to Tim Wise . From here: More here:
This Week in Blackness (9/21/08) AP - Yahoo Poll says "Race' matters in Election. (somewhat NSFW) 5 minute video, some "adult language" bleeped out more effectively than other "adult language." If you're over 12, it shouldn't be a problem.
I assumed that the success of Barack Obama, as well as thousands of other black Americans and dark-skinned immigrants -- many of whom thrive despite language problems -- demonstrates that America today is largely a colorblind meritocracy.
"For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.
In 2001, the writer and academic, Tim Wise, made history in the UK by taking one of the top prizes in the annual British Diversity Awards(7th) held in London - see Wikipedia.
a naive response to the idea that white (and therefore colored) is a social construct is to simply stop using that social construction. one of those simplistic ideas is to go colorblind - to not see race. sounds intuitive and simple. it's not.
I decided to try to work on myself at least by identifying some of the daily effects of white privilege in my life.
A recent study exploring white peoples' understanding of the black experience in America reveals that whites still drastically underestimate the cost of being black because they don't want to know or can't face the consequences.
When I read Steven Weinberg's assertion that those supporting a boycott of Israel suffer from a "moral blindness" that could only be explained by anti-Semitism, I wondered how he squared that claim to the moral high ground with a comment he once made to me that smacked of a …
By Lisa Lerner, ColorLines. Posted August 21, 2006. A white mother who adopts a baby from India confronts her shame that her child's skin is dark, and realizes she needs more diverse friends.