Killing One Monster, Unleashing Another: Reflections on Revenge and Revelry
There is a particularly trenchant scene in the documentary film, Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead, in which Blecker - who teaches at New York University School of Law and is the nation's mosread more
View ArticleTelling White Lies: Patriotic Correctness and the War on Ethnic Studies
You’re tellin’ white lies You’re tellin’ white lies Well I can see right through that thin disguise Can’t you tell I can tell when you’re telling’ white lies?read more
View ArticleOf Broken Clocks, Presidential Candidates, and the Confusion of Certain White...
This commentary is rated MA for mature audiences. It contains some foul language, although honestly, only so much as is needed to get the damned point across.read more
View ArticleTrayvon Martin, White Denial and the Unacceptable Burden of Blackness in America
By now, you probably know the shameful details, but they are worth repeating, in any event.read more
View ArticleTrayvon Martin, White America and the Return of Dred Scott
For a while now we’ve known that there were significant numbers of white Americans who wanted to “take their country back” to some mythical period of the nation’s hagiographic past.read more
View ArticlePlaying the Friendship Card: White Lies, White Denial and the Reality of Racism
I swear, if I hear one more transparently racist person insist they aren’t racist because they have black friends, I am going to shoot them. But not because I’m violent. I’m not violent.read more
View ArticleOf Children and Inkblots: Trayvon Martin and the Psychopathology of Whiteness
Write this down if you need to.Tweet it to yourself.Put it on your Facebook wall, never to be deleted from your ever-growing and cluttered timeline.Memorize it.read more
View ArticleWe’re Gonna Scapegoat Like It’s 1995: Welfare and the Never-Ending Lies of...
In the pantheon of right-wing dog whistles, none is as tried, true, and generally effective as “welfare” bashing.read more
View ArticleIf It Walks Like a Duck and Talks Like a Duck: Racism, Bigotry and the Death...
For the most part, I’ve tried to be restrained.read more
View ArticleOf Republican Race Cards and White Denial
It’s official. The symbolic head of the Republican Party is not Ronald Reagan. It’s Pee-Wee Herman.read more
View ArticleBigots and Their Enablers: Reflections on Racism, Both Individual and Systemic
It’s one of those stories that can leave even the most jaded and cynical critic of racist thinking scratching their head; the kind that manages to shock even those of us for whom acts of bigotry anread...
View ArticleAsking for It: Male Violence, Misogyny and the Prospects for Justice
Sometimes, it’s good to just vent.read more
View ArticleTerrorism and Privilege: Understanding the Power of Whiteness
As the nation weeps for the victims of the horrific bombing in Boston yesterday, one searches for lessons amid the carnage, and finds few. That violence is unacceptable stands out as one, sure.read more
View ArticleWhine Merchants: Privilege, Inequality and the Persistent Myth of White...
But what about us?read more
View ArticleFor Their Own Good? Contempt, Compassion, and the Conceits of Class Status
I’ve always been wary of those who insisted they were doing something — especially something harsh and perhaps hurtful — for the good of the person who has to bear the potential injury.read more
View ArticleDreaming of a White Jesus (and a Real Santa): Reflections on Conservative...
To be perfectly honest, I find it quite shocking that anyone would be, well, shocked, by Megyn Kelly’s recent insistence on her FOX showread more
View Article…But How Dare You Complain to Me: Ani DiFranco, White Obliviousness and...
Imagine for a moment that an artist of some sort — perhaps for lack of a better example, a folk singer — decided to host a writer’s retreat, at which interested and aspiring artists might gather read more
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