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Gilbert Morris on Blackness & The Presumptions of Ultimate Power

28 November 2010

This is an interesting thesis, to say the least. I want to reject it outright, but I am not sure I can. I can certainly see evidence of what Morris is talking about in the case of our own turn-of-the-century leaders; there is a core lack of confidence in the ability—or is it the right?—of [...]

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What White Privilege is All About: “Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black” – Tim Wise

26 April 2010

Just a little wake-up post, to say that yes, I am indeed Back from Belfast, and that yes, I’ll be writing about that after I am finished with the marking that I still have, despite working solidly at it over the past week or so. (It does help when students observe deadlines.) Got to this [...]

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Why Obama matters to all of us, everywhere

5 November 2008

Four Fingers and a Thumb On a hot day in a school in Laventille, I am reasoning with a student. This beautiful young woman of 17 years or so. I say to her, what do you want to be? She laughs and says a stripper. Her classmates laugh too, because to them it is a [...]

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Obama, Elections, History

4 November 2008

I’m in New York City this week. I’m in New York today. It’s part of a regular pilgrimage we make to the city every year if we can make it; above all, my husband’s a theatre director, and this is part of his investment in his career, this is part of his own research. Since [...]

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Tim Wise: Your Whiteness is Showing

12 June 2008

Tim Wise: Your Whiteness is Showing I’m sure that others have linked to this before me, and I’m coming late to the party, but – it’s fun. And rings true. See for yourself. This is an open letter to those white women who, despite their proclamations of progressivism, and supposedly because of their commitment to [...]

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A Post about America

3 June 2008

Now. Let me say that, unlike many of my countrymen, I’m not addicted to the American election. Put very simply, I am not American. The Obama/Hilary competition is more important to my mind for its symbolic value than for anything that it means to me as a Bahamian. For one thing, I don’t think for [...]

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