EDITORIAL
Another victim of injusticePost-racial America has not yet arrived. People still have difficulty confronting America's race problem. Many whites are in denial. When an incident involving a noteworthy African American occurs, white critics are quick to find joint liability. That is what happened in the matter involving the false arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. More » |
OPINION
After Shirley Sherrod, we all need to slow down and listenPresident Obama has called and chatted with Shirley Sherrod. Tom Vilsack and Ben Jealous have issued heartfelt apologies. There is talk of a "Chardonnay summit" in the Rose Garden. The subtext to all this? Let's wrap up this incident quickly so we can all go on our vacations guilt-free, secure in the knowledge that our "post-racial society" remains intact. More » |
Shirley Sherrod in a post-racial AmericaThis is what happens when you live in a racialized house of mirrors. A presidential hopeful, in order to defuse the specter of black anger hovering over his campaign - and, by doing so, rescuing his candidacy - is obliged to equally balance, at least morally, white American fears and resentments of black Americans with black American's endurance of four hundred years of chattel slavery and an additional hundred years of institutional racism, terror and violence. More » |
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
It's about the caloriesI write to comment on the article by Caitlin Yoshiko Buysse discussing the Boston Public Health Commission and Strategic Alliance for Health's Soda-Free Summer Challenge, which encourages people to swap soda for water, milk or fruit juice. Buysse notes that participants pledge to reduce soda intake or to ban it from their diet. More » |
