Views on racial equity, allyship, and inclusion by Our Human Family
The Fall into Freedom
In the way that snow blunts, distorts, and renders the physical landscape softer to the eyes, even as it makes the environment inhospitable to survival, so whiteness covers over its own violence, insisting the world it creates is beautiful, and benign ...
I Want a Masculinity Without Violence
Why is white straight masculinity often depicted in the dominant culture as tinged with violence? ...
The Strange Paradox of White Privilege
There’s something in the grammar of how the concept of white privilege is introduced and discussed that virtually guarantees the actual meaning of the term will be misunderstood ...
Michael Che, the Enlightenment, and Whiteness
To ask “what was here before whiteness” is to open the more dangerous question: what had to be eliminated, for this way of organizing reality to appear natural ...