Continuing Conversations, 3/5/18

On Monday, March 5th, Not In Our Town Princeton will meet in the Princeton Public Library’s Community Room at 7pm for our Continuing Conversations on Race and White Privilege. We will address the following topic: What is white supremacy? Is it limited to...

The Language of White Supremacy

  While some critics object that a more expansive definition of white supremacy hampers making distinctions in attitudes and actions, Vann R. Newkirk II explains how and why this linguistic change occurred.  He also refuses to let off the hook those in power who...

Was Charlottesville the Exception or the Rule?

Poet and essayist, Claudia Rankine, answers the question in her New York Times piece. “The horror we seem to only now be noticing is an effect of our country’s longstanding commitment to white supremacy. But I am unclear about when we ever lived without its...

There Is No Middle Ground Between Racism And Justice

Starting with the quote from Martin Luther King, Jr. ““I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who...