by lindaoppenheim | Dec 29, 2017 | Continuing Conversations
Because of the structures that exist to perpetuate racism and white supremacy, we are all on a journey as we work to dismantle those structures. Please join us on this journey and bring a friend. In advance of the program, consider reading No, I Won’t Stop...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 17, 2017 | Opinion
Courtney Martin, a white American, describes her college junior year semester abroad in South Africa and the lessons she learned. “[H]ow do you prime Americans, especially the young and high-achieving, for humility and even reverence? . . . . Humility, taken to...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 15, 2017 | Website
Educator Jon Greenberg has updated his Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism – from Ferguson to Charleston in the form of a step-by-step guide as a primer for white Americans to study and learn about racism. He rightfully...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 7, 2017 | Opinion
The writer explains how it took years before he “woke up” to a new understanding of racism. “I had to re-think comfortable assumptions: that it is better to be colorblind; that prejudice = reverse racism; that self-segregation by people of color is...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 12, 2017 | Opinion
How does white privilege look to a person of color? Writer Joel Leon says, “I am constantly in rooms with men, white men, who don’t cower, who do not just say “more”, but require it, silently; who stand firm in their more-ness — “more” is their...
