So what has protesting accomplished? 👉🏾Within 10 days of sustained protests:Minneapolis bans use of choke holds. 👉🏾Charges are upgraded against Officer Chauvin, and his accomplices are arrested and charged. 👉🏾Dallas adopts a “duty to intervene” rule that requires officers to stop other cops who are engaging in inappropriate use of force. 👉🏾New Jersey’s attorney general…
Black Student and Faculty Representation: How Much Progress Have We Made?
Political winds may shift, but racial factors in college success statistics don’t, according to highered.org. We were intrigued by this post from Marybeth Gasman of Rutgers: Between 1975 and 2020 (45 years!) we have moved the percentage of Black faculty from 4.4 to 5.7. A whole 1.3% in 45 yrs. Pro Tip: Diversity statements don’t…
The Problem With ‘All Lives Matter’
Should we stop singing “God Bless America” because “All Countries Matter?” There is a difference between something being true and being relevant. All lives matter. And water is wet. We are talking about Black Lives, police brutality and systemic discrimination. The confusion manifests itself like this. Antagonists say: “Only Black Lives Matter? All Lives Matter!”…
There are no white people in the Bible
There is not a single one. To begin, since the concept of nationality was very different in Biblical times than what we know as nations today, we are dealing only with questions of race, ethnicity, and skin color. This discussion started after a Facebook post was shared saying, “There are no white people in the…
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America–it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit….
Intersectionality Explored at Boise State
SIC 301 INTERSECTIONALITY AND SPORT (3-0-3)(F/S). Investigates sport culture, and particularly evaluations of race, class, gender, nationalism and other markers of identity, through the lens of intersectionality. PREREQ: ENGL 102. Read more; https://registrar.boisestate.edu/undergraduate/course-catalog/sic/
Exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality
From the New Yorker: In more than twenty years of running diversity-training and cultural-competency workshops for American companies, the academic and educator Robin DiAngelo has noticed that white people are sensationally, histrionically bad at discussing racism. Like waves on sand, their reactions form predictable patterns: they will insist that they “were taught to treat everyone…
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