Mesa, AZ...
Privilege
17 Articles
The story of one daughter’s long-term, messy, imperfect, and altogether inadequate attempts to connect with her father and nudge him closer and closer to an anti-racist practice. My hope is that it provides lessons for those who are similarly striving....
Last month I received two very intriguing and connected requests. The first was to publish a guest blogger’s article on White Guilt and Spiritual Health. The second was an invitation to co-facilitate a webinar....
This race/class privilege allows me to go about my days in relative ignorance of what others’ experience and how it shapes their moods, interactions, and attitudes about our city....
The spiritual basis for healing and transformation is a core need for justice movements. I am glad that I’m still associated with practices aligned with this orientation. And yet, it’s also essential that white people invested in spirituality have a racial justice orientation....
There has been no shortage of words spoken and printed on the primary subjects of this piece. I offer my voice now to highlight some of the important messages I received....
I tire of the sound bites and the irrationality so regularly displayed in the national media and via endless internet chatter. It seems that the stories that arrive and disappear with relatively little fanfare somehow touch something in me....
Two particularly insightful clips from Stephen’s “The Word” segment are really useful. Their penetrating and hilarious treatment of relatively recent events prompted me to build a workshop around them for some high school students last year....
I just want to alert you to a current issue/debate going on here in California that can be used to help us increase our ability to see how white privilege often shows up in our public debate....
Oakland, CA. White cop. Unarmed Black man lying face down. Shot in back. Murder or mistake?...