We live within circles – the circles of racism, of white supremacy, of domination. And we may not always be clear where within these circles we reside. I condemn the racist actions of a man who walked into a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and shot down 13 people because of his belief in replacement…
Pause, feel, reflect, inquire
This piece was also published in the Oak Park newspaper Wednesday Journal. If we value humanity, we white people must co-create and work in spaces that aspire towards antiracism. If we work in these spaces, our family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors of color will, at some point, call us racist or white supremacist, will say…
Our nation is sick. Is impeachment the remedy?
The wealthy white men who originated the institutions that make up this country -- from those who stepped off the boat at Jamestown to those who led the American Revolution and wrote the Constitution -- created the system of white supremacy. This white supremacy gave them free labor (free to them, although at great cost…
100 years and the struggle continues
A commemorative plaque placed near where the 29th Street Beach in Chicago used to be located. One hundred years ago, on July 27, 1919, a 17-year-old Black boy named Eugene Williams went to the 27th Street Beach in Chicago on a hot summer day to cool off with his friends. They were playing, laughing, and…
“When They See Us” told me a story I barely knew. It also told me about my whiteness.
When a white woman named Trisha Meili was brutally raped in Central Park in 1989, the public, the press, and the police were looking for someone to blame. The police identified Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam and Korey Wise. They were interrogated for dozens of hours, in some cases without their parents,…
