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Horace Seldon

Convictions About Racism In the United States of America

  • Good-bye Horace Seldon
    • Obituary
    • Last Days
    • Sunday Gathering Aug 20, 2017
  • Recollections
    • Poetry, Music
    • Emailed Thoughts
    • Pictures from Horace’s life
    • Brothers Restaurant
    • Christmas Cactus
  • Activities & Awards
    • Dead Fly Club
    • Horace Seldon Day
    • Abolition Acre
    • Beacon Hill Scholars
    • Preparing for Women’s March of Courage
    • Salem Award 2013
    • 2009 MTA Lifetime Civil Rights Award
    • Statement from National Park Service
    • Boston College Course 1980 – 2006
    • Community Change
  • Autobiography
  • Articles
    • Introduction

Category: Racism and Language

Posted on August, 1993October, 2008

Managing (Controlling) “Diversity”

Proliferation is an appropriate word to describe what is happening in many sectors of society under the heading of “managing diversity.” Most weeks bring to my desk a new announcement about another group that is offering to do “diversity training.” Continue reading “Managing (Controlling) “Diversity””

Posted on June, 1992October, 2008

Diversity Diversion

In the last three or four years there has been a rapid growth in stated concerns for issues of “diversity” in many areas of society. Partly in response to demographic projections for the early twenty-first century there is an almost hectic move to “diversify” Boards and staffs of innumerable organizations. Continue reading “Diversity Diversion”

Posted on March, 1991October, 2008

Those Who Are Made Poor

To work with the urban poor to fashion a vision of wholeness of human life against the realities of economic, racial and social injustice; to hold that vision and its responsibilities before the churches of the U.C.C. and the people of Metropolitan Boston; and to work with the urban poor towards the fulfillment of that vision. Continue reading “Those Who Are Made Poor”

Posted on August, 1990October, 2008

On Being a Non-Entity

Frequently I hear someone refer to a person or a group of people as being “nonwhite,” and it usually leads me to plead that we identify people by what they are rather than by what they are not. Continue reading “On Being a Non-Entity”

Posted on June, 1990October, 2008

The “New” Racism ???????

Every once in a while I read about a phenomenon which is described as the “new” racism. That sends my thoughts racing, trying to figure out what is “new” about the action being described. Soon my thoughts go in two contrary directions: one direction tells me that there is no such thing as a “new” racism, and the other acknowledges that maybe there is. Continue reading “The “New” Racism ???????”

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