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The Upside Down World ~ The Blog

The American Race and Race

Gather ’round, folks. Auntie Becky is going to tell you a story. A metaphor really, about race in America. And about the American Dream....

Do You Think I Should Send This?

Dear Bertha*, I am writing to let you know that my daughter mentioned to me today that on several occasions now your daughter Suzi-Q has...

The Real Reason the Term “White Privilege” Needs to Die

Want to start a fight? Put an honest white person and an honest person of color in a room together and tell them to discuss white...

What a white girl knows about race

Maybe they were right! I am the whitest of the white girls. I just am. I’m cool with that. One of my black girlfriends told me that...

A Letter to a Young Black Man

Andrew, I saw your post from earlier and wanted to check and see if you are OK. I have been meaning to write you anyways because...

Check Yourself

As I have argued before, one of the main barriers to dealing realistically with matters of race and the ongoing fall-out of the history...

The American Race and Race

Imagine for a moment, a long relay race where for generations it has been considered acceptable and in some cases even required to break...

Conservative Delusions About Race, Part II

“Transcending Race and Delusional Conservatives” outlining several ways that mainstream conservative thinking about race is wrong. (And...

Separated by a Common Language

“Words Heard Differently”. He starts by riffing off George Bernard Shaw’s observation that The USA and Great Britain are two countries...

Transcending Race and Delusional Conservatives

I want to address how this issue plays out on the conservative side. The conservative perspective is the one which is closer to what I...

Black-White Conversations We’re Afraid To Have

Northwestern University just put out a study which found that white people avoid dealing with black people or discussions of race out of...