By Rami Shapiro — 2019
After the terrorist attack in El Paso, Rabbi Rami is asked about the Tree of Life Synagogue murders.
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CLEAR ALL
Jesus was not white. You’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise if you’ve ever entered a Western church or visited an art gallery.
Close to 11% of American adults with Hispanic ancestors don’t even identify as Hispanic or Latino.
Stacie Marshall, who inherited a Georgia farm, is trying on a small scale to address a generations-old wrong that still bedevils the nation.
The antidote to white fragility is on-going and life-long, and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.
The poet, essayist, and playwright Claudia Rankine says every conversation about race doesn’t need to be about racism. But she says all of us — and especially white people — need to find a way to talk about it, even when it gets uncomfortable.
The black lesbian feminist writer and poet, who died 25 years ago, is better known than ever, her words often quoted in books and on social media.
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Did over ten centuries of decontextualized medieval European brutality, which was inflicted on white bodies by other white bodies, begin to look like culture? Did this inter-generational trauma and its possible epigenetic effects end with European immigrants’ arrival in the “New World”?