Views on racial equity, allyship, and inclusion by Our Human Family
The Blurry Line Between Innocence and Privilege
The reality is that our actions and our intentions don’t matter when the result is the harm inflicted upon another person. ...
The Powerful Divide So They Can Conquer
When people of any background sought to improve their circumstances at the expense of the superrich, those elites appealed to racism to stop any threat to their status ...
The Consequences People of Color Are the First to Suffer
When governments fail to condemn racist behaviour, People of Colour are left to face the grotesque and vile results ...
On “The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t“ and Other Mistaken Identities
When people insist upon an ethnic identity, how do we know to believe people versus when to be skeptical ...
You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But You Can’t “Make” It Stop Being Racist
There are two reasons some folks can’t grasp the concepts of white privilege and systemic racism ...
Think of It as Planting Seeds, Not Changing a Racist’s Mind
It’s no one’s duty to “change” a racist’s mind, but we can choose to positively impact their life. ...
If Not Now, White Folks, When?
Black people are being slaughtered. For the dead, tomorrow is too late for your activism. ...
OHF WEEKLY: Vol. 3 No. 9
In This Issue: “Humanity on Trial in Minneapolis,” “When White Men Have Bad Days,” and “We're All Racists” ...
We’re All Racists
Before you pop a gasket, let’s unpack it a bit and talk about why it’s so important to acknowledge ...
Justice for George Floyd
American's penchant for heaping generous portions of justice and mercy with a side of "benefit of the doubt" for everyone except Black people is well-documented ...
Making the Past the Past
For white American Christians, racism is an extraordinarily stubborn sin, resistant to being identified, named as wrong, being called out as wrong, and being expunged from the life of the holy believer ...
Why Can’t We Acknowledge Systemic Racism?
This article is about those who don’t acknowledge systemic racism—those who may admit that America had a racist past but believe that racism ended long ago ...
When America Plays the Race Card
We’ve tried the same failed tactics and strategies again and again only to achieve the same tepid results. We’ve tried it all—except for the one mindset we should’ve tried from the beginning ...
Confronting Our Nation’s Racist Past with Truth and Reconciliation
What America can learn from Rwanda and South Africa about enacting restorative justice ...
A Brief History of Race in American Politics
Racist rhetoric is nothing new in American politics ...