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.
Category Archives: Diversity
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”
