Diversity – Carole J. Garrison

Roaches: A story of Reflection and Understanding

Those who buy this anti immigrant rhetoric would squish this family in the same way that I’m contemplating killing this bug. So I don’t do it.

Modeling Effective Diversity

Never mind the next few generations because, at this rate, we won’t make it to the 22nd century.

Their prejudice runs deep and primordial—its etiology in our genetic history stretching back to pre-historic times. I’m not surprised and not optimistic, unless our national leaders can stop pretending they know who the enemy is and address the real problem—us.

The Hajj

The entry fee into this community was not money; it was TRUST.

Police Reform

Let us give police clear and unambiguous guidelines while relieving them of tasks that we should assign to ourselves and our social institutions.

Shock/Not Shocked

We can’t know what America has done to overcome its past errors if we hide our mistakes, rather than own them.

Letter to the Editor: Unity and Diversity is What Will Make America Great

Congress has enacted a number of civil rights statutes prohibiting discrimination in educational programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance. These statutes are as follows: Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion and national origin); Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (prohibitingContinue reading “Letter to the Editor: Unity and Diversity is What Will Make America Great”

Taking the Blackness out of Black

A close friend chided me for writing an editorial in which I referred to the lack of diversity and inclusion of women of color at a recent unveiling of a weaving commemorating Sojourner Truth’s “And Ain’t I a Woman?” speech in Akron, Ohio. Sojourner Truth may have been a woman of color but she wasContinue reading “Taking the Blackness out of Black”