It's hard to see water when you're a fish. A fish is surrounded by water -- literally swimming in it. And so it is hard for a fish to really comprehend what it means to be out of water. How does one ...
Beginning with ourselves : the importance of doing our personal work -- What's in it for us? why we would explore what it means to be white -- What does it mean to be white? -- Understanding white ...
White privilege — and its impact on society — does not mean that things are easy for white people, but “you have fewer barriers,” a University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg professor said recently ...
A Raleigh elementary school PTA's efforts to talk to parents about white privilege backfired when a minority parent thought it was an attempt to promote white supremacy. The PTA at Hunter Elementary ...
Marisol Fernàndez Y Mora ’17 says she welcomed the conversations about race that took place on campus during last week’s Otelia Cromwell Day celebrations. Yet there is always the concern that “these ...
What follows is for the benefit of one William James O’Reilly Jr. — “Bill” to his fans. Last summer, Mr. O’Reilly, a pundit for Fox “News,” spent time talking about white privilege and his contention ...
Wanda Sykes told a story about walking with a white friend on a hot day and slipping into a corner store for a couple of bottles of cold water. The friend opened her bottle and started drinking it on ...
Over time, I've come to care less and less about the comfort of white people such as myself when discussing the life-and-death issues of systemic racism and white supremacy in the United States.
White privilege encompasses inherent advantages a white person has based on their race. An extension of that is white supremacy, which is the belief that white people are superior to other races, ...
Conservatives around the country are attacking the Wake County school system, a Raleigh elementary school and the school's PTA over a handout about white privilege that was sent home with students.