Recently, I have noted two dreadful diseases which have attacked with devastating regularity a number of people who have said they want to work toward the elimination of racism from themselves, their institutions, and society. Continue reading “Antidote for Dread Diseases Fatal for Advocates of Racial Justice”
On Being Color Blind in 1980
I felt as if I had stepped into a time machine and been thrust backward at least twenty years! It was early morning, in late July 1980, and I was walking across the Boston public gardens when a black woman friend greeted me, and pushed a local paper into my hands. “How do you respond to this?” Continue reading “On Being Color Blind in 1980”
Pluralism and Racism
A genuine concern for a culturally pluralistic society is emerging. Numerous commentators on social trends have written asserting that white ethnic groups will increasingly claim and affirm their heritage. School systems are beginning to adopt Evaluation Guidelines for Multiracial, Multicultural Education, and teachers online gaming are developing supplementary units stressing an appreciation of diversity. The “melting pot” theory is dead. Continue reading “Pluralism and Racism”