The Kramer Complex
Citing a famous example of poor use of the N-word, the author asks for places where white people could learn, explore and interrogate that part of themselves related to racism
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April 17 Free Author Event: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons, With Dr. Brittany Friedman
Join Racial Justice Allies for a conversation with author Dr. Brittany Friedman, on her new book, Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons Dr. Brittany Friedman is a sociologist and associate professor at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White …
Who Will You Protect? by Wendy Millstine
(Photo source: Bloomberg) “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I …
My Despair and Inspiration re. Us vs. Them Destructiveness by Dinah Bachrach
Last December, as I was reeling from the October 7th massacre of Israelis followed by the genocide unfolding in Gaza, I had the good fortune to attend a zoom workshop held at a Berkeley California synagogue hosting an Israeli Rabbi and a Palestinian activist from the West Bank called Roots. …
Listening to the Stories by Susan Panttaja
This week, I went to the theater to see Origin, the new movie directed by Ava duVernay, based on the book Caste by Isabel Wilkerson. The film follows Wilkerson as she develops her theory of the parallels between racism in the U.S., the subjugation of the Dalits at the bottom of India’s caste …