President Biden will nominate America’s first Black woman Supreme Court Justice. This opportunity will give us a chance to see America’s racism as it occurs. America was a racist country from its inception and is still racist enough to be very effective at hindering black people’s full participation in the American experience. Rather than work … [Read more…]
How Magic Words Evade Discomfort but Tear America Apart. A very effective tool for hiding truths is the “Evasion Label,” a tool that immediately ends constructive dialogue and puts the person seeking understanding on the defensive. Words like “racist,” “Anti-Semite” and “sexist” pit societal norms against curiosity and inquisitiveness. Being that society is more … [Read more…]
The morning after the Derek Chauvin verdict, I woke up to Fox News being subconsciously racist and seeing no fault in it. This yields a great opportunity to demonstrate how systemic racism works. Fox News released a headline that morning associating LeBron James with violence despite him or his tweet they reported on having absolutely … [Read more…]
Righteous Racism happens when non-racists selectively enforce righteous standards, producing a racist effect. One prime example is drug laws, where although African Americans have never been more than 15% of America’s drug users and dealers, they were 40% of the arrests. Although police pursued the righteous cause of fighting drug sales and use, the way … [Read more…]