White Tim White talks a lot about White Privilege, White Peggy McIntosh is well-known for “Unpacking the White Knapsack” about what it means to be white, and most recently, White Mikhail Lyubansky, professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois, takes a stab at the notion in his article on psychologytoday.com, “Going Where Glenn Beck…
Okay, now I’ve said it, so what’s next? Traditional diversity trainings and rules of political correctness dictate you should suppress that instinct to notice race or be declared a racist. The fact is that categorization is an innate survival response dating back to the era of the hunter/gatherer: Edible, non-edible? Male-female? Friend-foe? Rather than suppress…
At a business networking event recently in 21st century ‘post-ethnic’ America, I noticed the same thing I saw in the high school lunch room 25 years ago, and in the college cafeteria: when it was time to sit and eat, everyone self-segregated: African Americans were in their clusters, whites in theirs, and so on. A…
The first time my husband and I went grocery shopping together, over 20 years ago now, it looked like the scene from the movie Green Card. Andie MacDowell was putting in fresh veggies and granola on one side of the cart, while Gerard Depardieu added sides of beef and lard on his side. Over time…
I was delighted to see Dawn Turner Trice’s call out in the Tribune on March 23 to start the conversation on race. “Let’s start a discussion. What question would you ask of a person of a different race to get to know him or her better?” I’m thinking this is fantastic, let’s go. But then…
