Tag: white privilege
Essential Social Justice Readings – Volume 1, Dec 2014
Essential Social Justice Readings Volume 1, Dec 2014-curated by Dr. Brian L. Ragsdale, brianragsdalewriter.com. From time to time I will bring you articles, videos, and other communications that relate to exploring oppression, culture, and social justice topics. I am sending this out on December 4th, 2014, a dreary and somber day after the Eric Gardner…
To Thee I Will Sing: No Justice, No Peace.
Dear Friends and Readers, I want to thank you for reading my blog over the past year. I started it in late Oct/November 2013 and I am quickly approaching 1,000 readers. I didn’t really know how many people would follow me so I am startled by the number of “my followers” and every time I…
Saving Dolphins, Saving Blackness
We save people and things that we believe need our help; dolphins, abused children, earth, and rare species. With only so many hours in a day, there are limits to the causes we can support, so choosing people/causes/things to save requires deep thought and reflection. All over Facebook, for example, there is the ice bucket…
My Blackness Had Become A Usual Prism
My blackness had become a usual prism while my maleness sat on the sideline in its innocent slumber. It was relatively easy to write about the anger and pain of racism relating to Ted Wafer. Wafer was a white man who murdered Renisha McBride in late 2013. She was a young African American woman who…
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