by lindaoppenheim | Aug 13, 2017 | Opinion
In his column in the Miami Herald, Leonard Pitts Jr. writes, “What happened Saturday in Virginia is the bitter and inevitable fruit of our habit of intellectual dishonesty where race is concerned.” Read more here.
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 12, 2017 | Opinion
The author of this blog posted images from the white nationalist march in Charlottesville, Virginia last night protesting the removal of a Confederate statue. She writes “Imagine for just one second that these protestors were black. . . . This is a country...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 1, 2017 | Opinion
Race scholar, Robin DiAngelo, explains why explains why the phrase “white supremacy” is appropriate for use apart from its describing extremist groups: “White supremacy captures the all-encompassing centrality and assumed superiority of people...
by lindaoppenheim | May 11, 2017 | Opinion
Longtime New Orleans’ resident and author, Michael Tisserand, supports Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s order to remove four prominent monuments portraying Confederate officials and generals ” as well as an obelisk celebrating the white militia that in 1874...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 21, 2017 | Opinion
Alex Kapitan revisits the definition of the phrase. “The idea that the concept of white supremacy is limited to white nationalism is, in fact, a way in which the true system of white supremacy seeks to disguise itself.”
