“However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: For the black man, there is only one destiny. And it is white.” ~ Franz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks “This contradictory longing to possess the reality of the Other, even though that reality is one that wounds […]
Whiteness is not an identity but a privilege. It is the only real race card for if whiteness ceased to exist, so would all the other social colors. We could all throw our hands in. Game over. But, no deal. It is handed out, passed down as an American inheritance for the have’s. But, have not […]
African and European Americans, those socially colored black and white, have different perspectives. That’s not the problem or even a problem. The problem comes in when race is included in the conversation. Because race says that only one side of the story is credible. Race says, “White is right.” There have been lots of conversations […]
“(Justice) cries out in the streets; in the squares she raises her voice. At the busiest corner, she cries out; at the entrance of the city gate she speaks: ‘How long, O (crooked ones will you love being crooked)?’”[1] No matter where we are or where we find ourselves, there are cries for justice. The […]
I wonder when we will put the two together– race and racism. Theirs is a partnership; the two go hand- in- hand as you cannot have one without the other. In fact, one cannot function without the other. Racism is not the problem. Racism is the way that the system of race works. Racism is […]