white privilege – Brian Ragsdale Writer.com

Enter Screaming: Little Black Sambo Game Boards and Nice White Racists

When I saw the “Black Sambo” game board in a square black frame. I wanted to scream. We were so excited to find a new Antique store, and the day was bright and sunny. The white store manager was what I describe as a nice white racist. He talked about how his best customers were…

Feeling All Kind of Ways This Morning

I know how cold and warm it is, because I feel it. I know the chill of white supremacy, and the warmth of compassion from those who treasure multicultural people. To live within, without. To watch, remember, and to know the spirit of colonization and to question if living in a colony is all I will…

To Thee I Will Sing: No Justice, No Peace. (2 of 4 postings)

November 29, 2014 – December 22, 2014. (These are the start dates and finish dates for each essay in the “To Thee I Will Sing” essay series). Round two. Examining “national and historic narratives of race.” In 1998, President Clinton developed a wide sweeping initiative to examine race related health disparities. I am one of…

Triumph of Selma: Duvernay’s Cinematic Mastery of Blackness While Walking The Tight Wire of Whiteness

I saw the explosive, powerful, and touching movie, #Selma. Selma is one of my all time favorite movies because of its touching portrayal of human complexity created within narrow psychological margins. Selma also tries to correct the cinematic over-emphasis of the over-indulgence of seeing Black history through Black male experience. The movie recasts the lives of African Americans…