I knew that I was wading into instant drama when I wrote and submitted my post-‘verdict’ Trayvon Martin column. I had written of race issues before as a Briefing columnist, and as a Black woman who’s lived in the South for most of her life, I was certainly aware that the status quo of “white… Continue reading The Trayvon Letters, Pt. 2: Attack The Messenger, Blame The Victim
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Eyes Wide Shut: Black Truths, White Guilt and Matters of Race
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin In the Aesops Fable entitled “The Lion And The Statue,” a man and a lion were having a debate about which of their species was the strongest. When they encountered a statue of Hercules overpowering a… Continue reading Eyes Wide Shut: Black Truths, White Guilt and Matters of Race