Posts Tagged ‘White Privilege’
Why Hollywood embraced white savior movies like ‘The Blind Side’
Athlete Michael Oher’s recent lawsuit reveals the truth behind a popular movie and how rampant the white savior complex runs.
Read MoreMother Of Teen In Citi Bike Video Speaks Out: ‘No One Bothered To Ask Him What Happened’
A white woman’s social media post about her interaction with several teens is challenged by one of the boys.
Read MoreHe Taught About White Privilege and Got Fired. Now He’s Fighting to Get His Job Back
In his Contemporary Issues class that day at a Tennessee school, social studies teacher Matthew Hawn led a discussion of the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha WI. Over the next several months, Hawn, 43, used the news cycle to show students, almost all of whom are white, how systemic racism is an indisputable element of American life. When he got fired, Hawn became one of the first casualties from the nation’s debate this year over “critical race theory” and whether or how teachers should acknowledge racism in class.
Read MoreBones of Black children killed in police bombing used in Ivy League anthropology course
Remains of those killed in 1985 Move bombing in Philadelphia serve as ‘case study’ in Princeton-backed course.
Read MorePiers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne: A Masterclass in racism
Audre Lorde once said, “Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity”… The recent actions of Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne demonstrate nothing has changed.
Read MorePaul Gosar Spoke At A White Nationalist Conference. The GOP Doesn’t Care.
An active congressman recently spoke at a White Nationalist conference, seemingly without a blink of an eye on behalf of the U.S. Government.
Read MoreJudge rejects request to increase Kyle Rittenhouse’s bond and issue arrest warrant
Wisconsin domestic terrorist-Kyle Rittenhouse continues to walk free after bail violation.
Read MoreWhite Mobs and Capitol riots are American to the Core
A Black woman and former Republican Sophia A. Nelson reflects on the terrorist attack that took place at the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Nelson insightfully analyzes the objectives of the attack and its’ repercussions, dutifully highlighting the fact that the attack is a pristine enactment of White Privilege.
Read MoreSystemic Racism 201: The advantages Whites have felt entitled to for generations
Most conversations about systemic racism center the stories of the harms to people of color while ignoring that White people benefit tremendously from it. This is a tough pill to swallow. Few people are willing to go down the proverbial rabbit hole Morpheus spoke allegorically about in that scene from the Matrix.
Read MoreWhat each of us can do to end racism
By Diana Diaz-Granados, La Crosse Tribune The recent killings of black Americans that have sparked protests around the country are not anomalies: Before George Floyd was Eric Garner; before Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down by three white men, James Byrd Jr was beaten, chained and dragged behind a pick-up truck by three white men; and…
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