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I know, the title is already taken. But bear with me.   Let’s start with some basics.  White privilege (male privilege, hetero privilege, cis privilege, age privilege, religious privilege, class privilege) isn’t about individuals.  It isn’t about whether people are…

Twice this week in the wake of the news reports that Jussie Smollet may have faked a hate crime, commentators on national news cautioned about false reporting of crimes. And, yes, we all should be worried about false reporting, but…

I can’t speak for my Black friends, nor can I speak for all white people, but I can speak as a white person.  And, I have decided that I must. Speak! You and I are only a few years apart…

The system of chattel slavery that enslaved millions and millions of people of African descent for the first 250 years of United States history is the story of policing Black bodies. The very definition of people of African descent as…

Dozens of studies conducted over the last several decades have demonstrated unequivocally that drug use rates are remarkably consistent across racial groups.  In other words, Blacks and whites use drugs at the same rates.   What differs is the kinds…

  I recently participated in a program, Dear World, in which we were asked to identify a message that we wanted to share with the world and write it on our bodies to be photographed.   I had arrived at…