Tag: racism

It has been said that the most segregated time in America is at 11 a.m. on Sunday morning, and though race relations in the United States have certainly improved in the 150 years since the end of slavery, you don’t have to look too hard or too long to find reminders of how things used to be, especially in the South.

When Black Lives Matter protesters engaged in direct action in Seattle recently, they succeeded in doing at least one thing: keeping race, and racially based injustice, on people’s minds and lips.

Publication of “Between the World and Me” is timely in view of the recent killings of unarmed black men by white policemen.

The chaos of the storms of racism, and murderous hate, are raging around us and we are being swamped.

A few days ago Jon Stewart, the host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, apologized for being unable to write jokes in the wake of the Charleston shootings. His statement was moving because it reflected truth in a way I've rarely heard. It forced me to once again think about myself.

To many, these seem like "isolated incidents" from fringe groups that don't warrant our attention, but to the communities being targeted, they are another reminder that hate lurks everywhere, and violence is only a neighbor away.

Though I currently live in the Pacific Northwest, it is often difficult for me to disconnect myself from my early days spent in the Deep South.