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The Perfect White Dress For The Girl From the Patchwork Village

The windows were cracked into diamonds like stained glass. Still, the mid-sized girl stood by the smaller children as they pressed their noses against the broken pieces to see what the fuss was about. She was curious, too. A car had driven up in their village, white and shiny like a metal savior, an...

Indicted man seeking White House job

Standing on the stage of the first Republican primary debate, eight candidates face the moderators. However, there is a void on the Milwaukee stage. Is he pouting? No one really knows. One fact is certain: the various candidates would undoubtedly have liked to take on Donald J. Trump. Plagued b...

We Can’t Blame This One On White Supremacy And Single Black Mothers

It’s a shame that a brutal beating that took the life of Tyre Nichols by five Black male officers, has turned the conversation to…Black women. If you are not familiar with the story, 29-year-old FedEx worker Tyre Nichols was pulled over for a “routine traffic stop”, the...

The Perfect White Dress For The Girl From the Patchwork Village

The windows were cracked into diamonds like stained glass. Still, the mid-sized girl stood by the smaller children as they pressed their noses against the broken pieces to see what the fuss was about. She was curious, too. A car had driven up in their village, white and shiny like a metal savior, an...

Do I Have White Guilt?

Recently, someone on Medium asked me if I have “white guilt.” One way to respond to this question is that I had nothing to do with being born the way I am. I happen to have “white” skin; I also happen to be half-Jewish and half gentile. But in the deeper realm of...

James Rosenquist WHITE BREAD

White Bread, 1964, is a classic example of James Rosenquist’s tongue-in-cheek Pop realism. Painted in oil but mimicking the bold techi-color, industrial paints of Madison Avenue’s graphic advertising style, White Bread exudes an aura of bizarre nostalgia. So American. So mid-west. So fam...

Why Is My PlayStation 2 In Black and White?

Why Is My PlayStation 2 In Black and White? Sony’s PlayStation 2 is a vintage gaming console. We all have had our time with this console back in the day. Now, if you are going to revisit the PlayStation 2, you might come across some troubles setting it up. The most commonly asked questio...

A monument to white supremacy stands uncontested in our own back yard

After Charlottesville and amidst the debate over statues of Lee, Davis and other confederate monuments, I came across an image of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C. The striking monument features a stately Abraham Lincoln standing over an unnamed, barely-clothed black man who is kneeling ...

My Landlord Built His Wealth from Chicago’s White Flight

Mom drove up to the two-story house in her burgundy Buick and handed me an envelope with $600. I hopped out of the car and ran to the front door, thrilled to drop off rent to our landlord. I felt like such an adult. It was 1994 and I was seven years old. From behind the screen door emerged Todd, a t...

THE NEWS IN WHITE AND BLACK

CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 1916 — On a frigid and windblown day, a small item appeared in a Chicago newspaper. Several hundred black families had quietly left Selma, Alabama, heading north. Their treatment in the South, one refugee told the paper, “doesn’t warrant staying.” ...

Indie Rock is Full of Privileged White Kids. I Know Because I’m One of Them.

The following is a transcript of the keynote address I gave for Sonic aGender an event held as part of Darebin Music Feast on Friday the 19th of October, 2018. “Indie Rock is full of privileged white kids. I know, because I’m one of them. Who else has the luxury to gaze backwards?&rdq...

Just Another (White Girl’s) Guide To Mexico City

An influx of digital nomads have found their way to Mexico City over the past few years and unsurprisingly, it has had a negative impact on the locals. The neighborhoods I am about to recommend you stay in are overrun with techies making SF or NY salaries, and Mexicans that have spent their entire l...

The White Peacocks of Prague

I read  Dr. Seema Patel (PhD) ’s story about watching peacocks in California and remembered the white peacocks I saw in Prague. I had entered the courtyard of the Wallenstein Palace Garden, still dizzy from my arrival in the city and my first tentative steps in Old Town...

Which is more tasty organic brown bread or white bread?

Overview: In today’s blog post, we’ll explore the world of organic bread, specifically comparing the flavors of organic brown bread and white bread. We’ll examine what precisely qualifies as organic bread, go over the advantages of consuming it, and balance the advantages a...

Thinking Outside the Box: Alternative Social Scene in the “White City”

Strolling down Tel Aviv’s streets on the weekend reveals some of the city’s most prominent features: a vibrant bar scene, noisy house parties, people sitting and chatting on Rothschild Blvd, etc. While mainly posted on social media, unconventional events, consistent with the local congen...

The White Light Phenomenon

The cosmos has always piqued my curiosity; the infinite expanse of the universe invoked a big fat question mark in my head. In the fall of 2017, I stumbled upon an article in the NY Post about a meteor shower set to grace the night sky on August 12. The prospect of experiencing this cosmic event for...

The Tragedy of the White Tiger

The lion may be the king of the jungle, but the tiger is the king of beasts. According to Chinese legend, anyway. Considering tigers are larger than lions and have bigger brains, it’s tough to argue. But the apotheosis of tigers in China goes far deeper than sheer size or smarts. Officially...

How to Break the Rules of the Wealthy White Family

In my previous article, I outlined the six unspoken rules that work to confine money to rich families and hoard wealth indefinitely for the family lineage. These rules were shaped by conservative, white, Christian, British elites, and it’s high time we break them. This is a guide for w...

Bill Gates and the Epidemic of White Saviorism

Today, we see a lot of prominent people in the Global North pitching solutions to the world’s problems. They claim that their business savvy, resources, and influence are exactly what’s missing in the quest to save humanity from poverty, hunger, and illness. They believe they’ve &l...

Why Use a White Cane When You Could Have a Dog?

And really… why would someone choose a cane when they could have a dog who’d be both, a guide and a companion? The first thing to note: skill at using a white cane is a prerequisite to being a guide dog handler. Before I was matched with my first guide dog, I h...

Finally Studying Those Research Has Left Behind in Favor of White Subjects

Years ago, while visiting a major pharmaceutical firm engaged in research all over the United States, I questioned who was in the sample and why it seemed certain groups were missing. I also asked about research in China. The answers came back in a casual manner. “Oh, we can’t ...

Snow-White Is-No-White

This question raises an important point about the need for diversity and inclusivity in storytelling and representation. It calls for a shift in the way stories are told and for a more inclusive approach that reflects the diversity of our society. By embracing different perspectives and experiences,...

The Afternoon That I Temporarily Lost My White Privilege

In my youth, I was a stagehand. I have spent many hours rigging shows, running a soundboard, working a spotlight, and loading and unloading hundreds if not thousands of trucks. In 1991, I decided to experience life on the road with a band as equipment manager. I was hired by a South African re...

Jim Irsay and White Victimhood

Jim Irsay, 64, the much-maligned, controversial, and outspoken billionaire owner of the Indianapolis Colts, is again in the news due to comments made on HBO’s monthly news show Real Sports. Irsay has a penchant for irking the public due to his eccentric attitude, smug demeanor, and seemin...

Why White Feminists Need To Understand Ellen Pence’s 1982 Essay

IfI told you that recently a white feminist got very aggressive with me, and could not understand that other groups of women have their own experiences within their community, different from white women’s experiences and assumptions of what it means to be a woman, would you be surprised? Depen...

Barbie’s White Feminism Problem

One of the major themes in the movie highlights how difficult it is being a woman. As a cisgender Pakistani Muslim man, I know I’ll never be able to understand what those experiences are like. I appreciated the movie for engaging with these topics and creating opportunities for people to discu...

Beware of White Saviors with ‘Black Lives Matter’ Signs

“I’m the first person to march in Black Lives Matter. When that happened to George Floyd, I put a black screen on my Instagram. I ran to support my Black brothers and sisters. When LGBTQ people are being attacked, I run. I made a commercial for same-sex marriage with my husband in 2012. ...

Is There A White Doctor On The Plane?

Some years ago, my spouse, our baby, and I were traveling internationally to visit family. The journey was long, tiring, and overnight. As we flew over the Atlantic Ocean, the cabin lights dimmed and we settled into our seats, hoping for some sleep. A few hours later, our rest was interrupted by an ...

When White People Try to Hide Their Racism, They Use These Phrases

InAmerican society, many White people live in fear of being called a "racist." It's become a scarlet letter for some because once you're exposed as such, you may lose legitimacy in your professional life and the community more broadly. For instance, last fall, a police officer in S...

Claudine Gay, Ex-President of Harvard: A Hit Job By Three White Men

Three white mice. They are not blind mice. They are certainly not blind to race. They are men who look in the mirror each day and smile, knowing they are masters of the universe because of what they see in the mirror: a white face. Claudine Gay, a Black woman, resigned as President of Harvard aft...

The Loss of White Privilege

One of the things that I’ve lived with my whole life in America and have never forgotten for even a minute since I realized that it exists at about age sixteen was my white privilege. I was stopped by the police, which was no surprise. My car was covered in bumper stickers advertising an ...

A Black Boy Living In A White World

At the age of 8, I began ditching school. Instead of going to school, I would go into the canyon and hang out — climb trees so the principal and teachers could not find me. It was such a peaceful world until the principal looked up that one day and saw me in the tree. I ditched school becau...

Colorism Isn't Hatred in a Vacuum. It's Inspired by White Supremacy

Inthe land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and in a country that rejects blackness, whiteness, or lightness, reigns supreme. Why have most Americans heard of Rosa Parks's refusal to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, a decision that sparked a successful boycott of racial...

American Amnesia: January 6 And White Entitlement

You’ve moved on, right? You don’t want to dwell on the past. You have seen enough footage and there is nothing more to see. Besides, it is too painful to watch again, so you are thinking “Let’s just move on,” right? Well “what’s past is prologue,” s...

The White Person’s Definitive Guide To People Of Colour

When you’re a person of colour, and your friend sends you an article entitled “100 Ways White People Can Make Life Less Frustrating For People of Color,” you know it’s going to be rough. Not only because you learn that cynical, race-baiting garbage like this can still rack...

Yes, You Can Be Racist to White People

Let’s suppose there’s an American you know, and he’s devoured the works of Karl Marx, and is thoroughly convinced that communism is the way to go, that every nation in the world should convert to communism. You could point out that communism has failed in every nation that has i...

You’re Probably Not Actually White-Passing

When I was no more than eleven years old, my older sister declared to me that she wouldn’t correct people who assumed she was a monoracial Native American. She told me “nobody wants to be Black.” My sister, four years my senior, is lighter than me with “passable” featur...

The Problem with Kali Uchis/White Latinxs

There’s always a problem with discussing issues in the Latinx community publicly: most people don’t understand or care about the complexities of Latinidad. It’s no surprise that this happened multiple times in the past week as Kali Uchis got criticized for portraying herself as a b...

We Don’t Need Another (White Pioneer) Hero

How has White Christian nationalism maintained its death grip on the American imagination for so long? What part do heroic representations of White pioneers on the American frontier play in reinforcing the myth of a quintessentially White America and obscuring the centrality of racial politics ...

The Real Reason For My White Tears

She, a black woman, had come to consult with me, a white therapist. We had been meeting for over a year, and during that time, I had developed a deep admiration and care for her. Her struggles did not revolve around depression, anxiety, relationship troubles, or the myriad of other problems peopl...

The White Declaration of Independence

Before November 8, 1898, Wilmington, NC, might have been considered a model for successfully mixing the races. Three of the ten aldermen were Black, and the City had Black policemen and judges. Reconstruction was effectively over in most of the South from the day federal troops pulled out after the ...

Republicans Are the Real Victims of White Privilege?

Apparently this is over refusing a Congressional subpoena, which Trump and his staff did. Actually, a few member of Rep. Mace’s own party did it. Beyond that though, what does she even MEAN here? Privilege over who exactly? When People of Color talk about that, they refer to people oppre...

White Boys Are Reshaping AmeriKa Through Black Women

When I lived in New Mexico I had some beef with a white boy who was married to an Afro-American woman; the daughter was in my youth group. I knew this punk was going to be trouble when we had a team bonding at a pizza place, they strictly enforced wearing masks. This punk was the only dude who would...

5 Stereotypes White America Uses to Rule the World

America is home to 4.23% of the world’s population and yet it nearly a fourth of the world’s GDP. GDP can be confusing to some, so let us look at an easier-to-comprehend number. According to the UBS and Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report 2023, American househo...

White Collar Week Tuesday Speaker Series: REMISSION NOW “Fairness in Restitution” Town Hall,

We held a lunch and learning session with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the U.S. Pardon Attorney to raise awareness about the impact of restitution, share how restitution for many is a “life sentence,” and advocate for commutation of restitution. After our sess...

Homeopathic treatment for white spots on skin

A long-term skin disorder called vitiligo. The early stages of vitiligo are areas of skin that appear white where the outer layer of skin has lost its pigment. The exact cause of vitiligo still needs to be fully understood. Acute, genetic and environmental factors are thought to be responsible. T...

Homeopathic treatment for white spots on skin

A long-term skin disorder called vitiligo. The early stages of vitiligo are areas of skin that appear white where the outer layer of skin has lost its pigment. The exact cause of vitiligo still needs to be fully understood. Acute, genetic and environmental factors are thought to be responsible. T...

Why White People Contribute to Cruelty Instead of Compassion

It is interesting to me to see a glaring lack of compassion from so many of my fellow white Americans. This is evident not only for George Floyd’s death but the countless deaths of black members of our society that are the result of a culture with racism at it’s core. How does this happe...

Why Affirmative Action is White

The Black past teaches us that periods of racial progress in America, whether real or perceived, are followed by periods of racial retrenchment. For example, the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877) resulted in the Nadir of Race relations, the Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968), succeeded by th...

Liz Cheney Has A Mission To Keep Trump Out Of The White House

Liz Cheney was brave enough to dispute Trump’s false claims of voter fraud in the election. She became a member of the House select committee to investigate the happenings and cause of January 6. That brought further anger from Trump and his MAGA followers. Cheney agrees that Trump should b...

Day 4. Plaything: Checkmate King 2, this is White Rook, over …

As a kid, I owned guns, not real guns but toy guns. Being from the Wild West in Wyoming, one of the annual events was Cheyenne Frontier Days. That was a week-long celebration that glorified westward expansion, cowboys, and ranching. I went through a western gun phase, but when I became older in t...

The Myth of White Disadvantage in the Workplace

My doctor, an outspoken liberal, asked if my partner found a new job. “Not yet,” I replied, expecting an air of sympathy or a change of topic. But instead, he prescribed a look of confusion. “But isn’t she a Latina,” he asked. He proceeded to share he has heard a lot of...

We Need to Talk About What It Means to Be ‘White-Adjacent’ in Tech

Asians in tech are now frequently considered so white-adjacent that we are no longer identified as people of color, as if the relative overrepresentation of some East and South Asians with socioeconomic and educational privilege means that the entirety of the AAPI community is no longer subject to i...

The Truth About Being a ‘Woke’ White Person

Ifyou lived on a diet of Fox, OAN, Newsmax, Rumble, or any of the (plentiful) other right-wing media outlets, you’d likely despise the word ‘woke’ and everything it represented. Well… everything you thought it represented, that is. If pressed to define what ‘...

Ending the myth of the White Race

The White Race was invented in the 17th century. There were Imperialists in a few Western European nation states that had military and economic power. They wanted to justify the rather brutal things they were doing, and inventing a theory of racialism was a perfect way to trick themselves into not h...

6 Ways A Black Person Can Tell A White Person Isn’t Racist

Black people can detect racists from a mile off. It’s the way they look at us — it’s often a look of disgust, deep hatred, or fear, and it shows. The minute we approach you, we can feel it — call it our sixth sense or survival instinct. Because we can feel that racism, we ...

Dismantling White Supremacy in Design Classrooms: My Conversation With Design Guru Cheryl D. Miller

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the ways in which my teaching practices might be reinforcing White supremacy. In particular, I’ve been thinking about how graphic design advice that I share in my classes — advice that I thought to be “neutral” and “benign&...

If you’re a white woman wanting to lead anti-racism groups…

More white women are educating themselves about anti-racism and allyship. There still aren’t nearly enough of them, but the number of white women requesting training in my group Real Talk: WOC & Allies for Racial Justice and Anti-Oppression continues to grow. That’s a good ...

White Women: How We Are Perpetuating White Supremacy at Work

Asthe Chief of Staff, I’m sitting in a meeting with our leadership team as we debrief about a company policy that negatively impacted an employee who is a Person of Color. We start to go down the path to defend ourselves: We are a Certified B Corporation, a social impact agency, our missi...

Naming “White Glaze”

Did you start to glaze over when you read the word “white”? As if, because this article is about Whiteness and racism, then this article must be for racists or people of a different race? If so, great! This article is written for you! Also, if you have European heritage or are raciali...

Are White People Correct About the Phrase “Not All White People”!?

Not all white people is an ancient white proverb that has echoed throughout time and space, especially within the last century. Though the phrase crackles loudly, like a Midwest summer storm, it carries as much validity as an expired coupon. Like many other white proverbs, not...

A Love Letter to All the Overwhelmed White People Who Are Trying

In 2018, when my video of two Black men unjustly arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks went viral, I was thrust into an international conversation about race, and as a middle-aged white lady, I was overwhelmed, confused and ashamed, to say the least. That’s probably how you’re f...

We Need to Talk About What It Means to Be ‘White-Adjacent’ in Tech

Asians in tech are now frequently considered so white-adjacent that we are no longer identified as people of color, as if the relative overrepresentation of some East and South Asians with socioeconomic and educational privilege means that the entirety of the AAPI community is no longer subject to i...

“I’m not racist, I just prefer White guys.”

In modern day America, people of color must contend every day with societal systems of oppression and White supremacy that seek to disadvantage their wellbeing and opportunities. This racial discrimination is often felt across many aspects of life and has a profound impact on their identity developm...

White Accountability.

In this entire journey, it has been one population who has believed, seen, and responded to us; It has been the Asian American community, particularly the women. Almost exclusively the women! In our journey to escape. Who called the advocates to come for us? Who told us they would refrain from...

Colorism Isn't Hatred in a Vacuum. It's Inspired by White Supremacy

Inthe land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and in a country that rejects blackness, whiteness, or lightness, reigns supreme. Why have most Americans heard of Rosa Parks's refusal to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, a decision that sparked a successful boycott of racial...

The White Obsession With The N-Word

Why are some white people so obsessed with using the N-word? This goes beyond breaking a taboo; it's a glaring symptom of a deep-rooted issue in white culture. It's not just about a word; it's about a legacy of power, control, and an unsettling sense of entitlement over Black culture. ...

Why is America So Reluctant to Call These Murders White Terrorism?

Once again, the Black community is grieving because of lives lost from a racist attack. Yesterday, on Saturday, August 26th, a young White man, Ryan Palmeter, armed with an AR-15 style rifle and handgun, opened fire in a Dollar General in Jacksonville, Florida, killing three Black people, two men an...

Rites and Responsibilities: What Role for White Settlers in the Work for Indigenous Sovereignty?

Three generations ago, my great-grandmother and great-grandfather fled a small village in Western Ukraine in hope of peace, prosperity, and a life free from oppression. They gave up their extended family, language, and traditions as they traveled across the world to settle in the eastern United Stat...

The Problem with White Veganism

It disregards the fact that the meat and dairy industries are inherently colonial legacies. It comes charging in on its moral high horse, enforcing its beliefs that veganism is the only way forward, overlooking the truth: that the white popularisation of plant-based consumption is only shifting unet...

The Non-White Girl With The White Name

Say, you saw my name on a letter that you were delivering. You take it to my door because that is just the kind of person you are. I open the door. You see me. How do you react? Believe it or not, I’ve experienced this exact scenario not too long ago. Someone delivered a stack of paperwork ...

Not Just “White Parents with Kids of Color”: The Importance of Racial Identity Work for Parents

Discussing multiraciality, transracial adoption, and identity have incited the most heartfelt and passionate debates I have ever witnessed in my professional or personal life. Multiracial families (both adoptive and non-adoptive) and mixed-race people are living symbols, and also walking targets, fo...

A letter to my white partner after our daughter said she wishes she were white

I need you to step up. Race is a thing. That could not be more obvious today. You don’t need to be a social justice warrior, but you need to be my coparent. You have children of color. You can’t truly believe that our daughter is the one person in the world that won’t absorb white ...

What Happens When You Are Not “White” Like Your White Father

I was in the dressing room with the rest of my class. We had just finished rehearsal for a play. I was in eighth grade and this was drama class. That day I was getting my stuff ready in the dressing room. I knew my dad was picking me up that day. I was hoping that he had our dog with him too. See...

Do I Have White Guilt?

Recently, someone on Medium asked me if I have “white guilt.” One way to respond to this question is that I had nothing to do with being born the way I am. I happen to have “white” skin; I also happen to be half-Jewish and half gentile. But in the deeper realm of...

White Fragility Is A Book About Racism

DiAngelo views racism in the USA as systemic and sometimes perpetuated by individuals subconsciously. Many believe that is the case. Racism is something that has existed in the United States from its earliest days. People may feel superior to others because of the color of their skin or other fac...

Stop Taking Advice from Tall Attractive White Dudes

The first time I realized I might have no idea what I was talking about was when I gave my neighbor dating advice. He told me he had joined a dating site and messaged over 100 women without a single response. “No problem. This is what you do,” I said. Then I told him my strategy for a...

The White Obsession With The N-Word

Why are some white people so obsessed with using the N-word? This goes beyond breaking a taboo; it's a glaring symptom of a deep-rooted issue in white culture. It's not just about a word; it's about a legacy of power, control, and an unsettling sense of entitlement over Black culture. ...

The Afternoon That I Temporarily Lost My White Privilege

In my youth, I was a stagehand. I have spent many hours rigging shows, running a soundboard, working a spotlight, and loading and unloading hundreds if not thousands of trucks. In 1991, I decided to experience life on the road with a band as equipment manager. I was hired by a South African re...

You’re Probably Not Actually White-Passing

The practice of passing as white or non-Black emerged with Antebellum & Jim Crow, something done intentionally & strategically, as a means of survival. To escape slavery, violence, poverty, one could cast the illusion of whiteness. My sister & I grew up half-Black in what you could call ...

The Souls of White Folk

This essay, “The Souls of White Folk,” goes without saying that the generalizations do not apply to every white individual. Some fight valiantly to improve the human condition, seek equality among the races, and right the historical wrongs of this nation or acknowledge them. Yet, the col...

The Violence of white Apologies

Many Black people will tell you that the past ten days constituted a whirlwind unlike any other. For many of us our phones rang (and continue to ring) off the hook, our DMs full of white people experiencing racial revelation. The veil now torn, their eyes newly open to the reality of the world ar...

Your Children Want to Break the First Rule of White Club

I realized I was writing the wrong book when a white student, Sophie,* sat across the conference table from me — her white teacher — and said that her Black classmate, Maya, didn’t deserve to be a writer. It was only a few days into the Kentucky summer program where I teach crea...

The Real Reason For My White Tears

She, a black woman, had come to consult with me, a white therapist. We had been meeting for over a year, and during that time, I had developed a deep admiration and care for her. Her struggles did not revolve around depression, anxiety, relationship troubles, or the myriad of other problems peopl...

Big Trouble in Little China and Dismantling the “White Savior”

As I’ve slowly peeled through John Carpenter’s filmography, I’ve found some of the most interesting and frankly fantastic low-to-mid-budget films I’ve ever seen. From one of my all-time favorite films like The Thing, to one of my favorite political satires in&n...

Healing My Struggles with Whiteness (As a White Guy)

I also recognize wholeheartedly the struggle of all the non-white folks who have found themselves encircled by a dominant culture that punishes them for expressing who they are. I am saying that growing up with that privilege has diminished my capability for empathy, healthy expression ...

An Invitation to White Therapists

In2012, I fell in love with the art, science, and practice of psychotherapy. As I see it, spaces created by this discipline serve as oxygen to the crushing suffocation of the anti-Black, homophobic circumstances permeating the air I strive to breathe. Learning how to be a therapist has not o...

The Souls of White Folk

This essay, “The Souls of White Folk,” goes without saying that the generalizations do not apply to every white individual. Some fight valiantly to improve the human condition, seek equality among the races, and right the historical wrongs of this nation or acknowledge them. Yet, the col...

On the Ramifications of Being Both White and Other

I struggled with my feeling of being othered for much of my childhood because I also was (and am) white, with pale skin and blue eyes. Why did I feel so out of place, so othered when I also had and continue to hold white privilege? Part of it was that many of my peers and teachers immediately labele...

Why Blacks Are Tired of Hearing about White Fragility…and Why It Matters

This phenomenon, termed “white fragility,” is explained in Robin DiAngelo’s New York Times best-selling book of the same name, in which she describes the unexamined racial identity of white people and how they disassociate themselves from racism. DiAngelo’...

How Racism Began as White-on-White Violence

The 1500s and 1600s in England and Europe were anything but gentle times. People were routinely burned at the stake for religious heresy, a practice that began in the twelfth century and continued through 1612. Torture was an official instrument of the English government until 1640. The famous Tower...

White Muslims, We Need to Talk

Those 32 soldiers had spent their entire lives in service to another cause. They walked out of their homes and they marched to Karbala with thousands of men just like them. They armed themselves to fight in what they were told was a righteous cause. With other soldiers they held the line holding bac...

A Personal Message for Current and Future White Moms — Part 2

“I don’t understand why I should have any responsibility for things that happened centuries before I was born. It’s not my job to fix racism and personally, I feel attacked when someone approaches me to talk about my so-called ‘privilege.’ It’s like I’m a vi...

Decolonization for White Advocates

Decolonization is a multifaceted and ongoing process that seeks to address the historical injustices, power imbalances, and enduring legacies of colonialism. While colonialism primarily affected communities of color, its impacts reverberate across society, affecting people of all backgrounds, includ...

The Broke White Person and You

Two classics of U.S. feminism frame our discussions of race and privilege. More than a generation ago, Peggy McIntosh published ‘White Privilege and Male Privilege,’ an article that shapes many ‘diversity’ conversations to this day. And close to a decade ago, the ar...

Twin Peaks is Candy for White Liberals

Not that Hawk is much deeper. He’s stoic, spiritual, and a little subservient. So in spite of how much I wanted to like this character, it was pretty clear that the only moderately decent person of color on this show was a stereotype not unlike Josie. This is by no means the first Cigar Store ...

Unpacking White Saviorism

Driving out to the city’s suburbs, I attended a meeting at a wealthy, predominately white church around the concept of “white saviorism.” Walking in I was not expecting these suburbanites to be up to speed on social justice lingo and activism, however, I was pleasantly surprised to...

White Privilege, White Entitlement, White Arrogance, Donald Trump and the Perverted Stench of White Supremacy!

During the past several years with the evolution of Black Lives Matter, the election of Donald Trump, fear of ongoing immigrants and other related factors have resulted in deep levels of consternation among specific subcultures of Whites in our nation and have culminated in significant levels of arr...

The Fear of a Black Planet: Why White Nationalists Are Opposed to Immigration

This issue of white fear is as prevalent today as it was 100 years ago (The Nadir of Race Relations, D.W. Griffith’s Birth of A Nation (1915) and the Yellow Peril), via the proliferation of cultural wars and the strident and consistent cacophony against what many fear is an ‘in...

Ending the myth of the White Race

The White Race was invented in the 17th century. There were Imperialists in a few Western European nation states that had military and economic power. They wanted to justify the rather brutal things they were doing, and inventing a theory of racialism was a perfect way to trick themselves into not h...

I Am Not A Priestess For White Souls

We all have heard of the familiar trope of being the “token black” at some point in life it’s exhausting. To be the only source of melanin with bomb ass culture in a sea of whiteness is tiring. To often I have found myself trying to assimilate, trying to be the “good black&rd...

White Women: How We Are Perpetuating White Supremacy at Work

Asthe Chief of Staff, I’m sitting in a meeting with our leadership team as we debrief about a company policy that negatively impacted an employee who is a Person of Color. We start to go down the path to defend ourselves: We are a Certified B Corporation, a social impact agency, our missi...

ELON MUSK IS A BIGOTED WHITE SUPREMACIST

Haven’t written here in a while, so anyone still following and reading this, thank you for your immense patience. To say the least, the past year’s events have not only exhausted me but filled me with a sense of impending dread. It is my considered opinion any sane person would agree. Gi...

Cutting the Bull — When Implicit Bias is Used to Euphemize White Supremacy

Italways gives me pause whenever I come across the terms “unconscious bias” or “implicit bias” when it comes to Race in general, and specifically Race as Color and Race as Character. It is important at the outset to distinguish between the kinds of bias whose origins are beni...

How Racism Began as White-on-White ViolenceWhite Violence

The 1500s and 1600s in England and Europe were anything but gentle times. People were routinely burned at the stake for religious heresy, a practice that began in the twelfth century and continued through 1612. Torture was an official instrument of the English government until 1640. The famous Tower...

“If The Average White Person Doesn’t Hate Black People, Why Does Racism Persist?”

The title is a question I received, like so many of the questions I am asked by cognitively dissonant people identifying as white, who more than likely consider themselves average as well. I am struck by the question at once, principally because this particular commenter actually expects m...

On White Leaders Who Dehumanize Black People and Danielle La Porte’s New Program

If I’m being generous, I suspect that the use of this imagery was an attempt to make this program feel more accessible to people of color. I suspect that the decision to name a program “Lighter” and then pair that program with images of black naked bodies — or to piece togeth...

My Cynicism of White Liberals

Mytime in this world, given I’m only 20, has been fairly short lived. My time with awareness of the predicaments brought about through my own race, being the black man that I am, has been even shorter. Even so, with my explicit racial journey beginning in 2014 during the mass televisation of t...

Yet Again, The White Hand of Dismissal Affects My Black Life

While my wife went off to do a little corn hunting, I made the rounds, purposely avoiding the kale and displays of unidentified orange whatevers. Eventually, I found myself in front of the white peaches. As luck would have it, I was the only one holding court at this abundance of circular Prunu...

Are you a White Evangelical or a KKK member?

This article is not meant to lend any legitimacy to the Ku Klux Klan. Few organizations are as universally recognized and abhorred. Known colloquially as ‘the Klan’ or ‘the KKK’, the original cell was formed in Tennessee around 1865 as a response to the American Civ...

White Paper: Imaging-based viability assessment of cytostatic vs cytosolic chemotherapies in 3D culture using a novel high-throughput multi-camera array microscope

CellTiter-Glo (CTG) is the gold standard for assessment of cellular viability due to its ease of use and fast turnaround time for data analysis. Multiple commercially available systems are capable of assessing imaging-based viability, but the speed of acquisition and time-consuming analysis limits t...

White biotechnology

Now, the question is why this biotechnology is known as white biotechnology the answer is when we apply application part of this field in our daily life during the practical process we use molds, bacteria, yeast, and different enzymes that help to synthesize products that are easy to degrade, they c...

Make Your Own Black and White Developer

In this new series of blog posts, I will take you through how to compound your own black and white developer formulae from raw chemicals, which will allow you to explore the varied effects possible when home-developing black and white film. You don’t need to be a chemist to perform any of...

Yellowed and Faded White Linens in a Box, Never Used

Charles Dickens was an astute social critic who exposed his social commentary by degrees. Some of his characters are more subdued, others are caricatures whose exaggerated features satirize society at the time. In Bleak House, Mrs. Jellyby wants to save every needy child in Africa, and her time...

Sympathy For the White Devil

Killers of the Flower Moon is a good film that makes an evil character sympathetic. The troubling thing here is that the forces of good are background characters. We don’t get to know them but as archetypes. They’re killed off, and many are shown to be mourning, angry...

Elara and the white cottage

About 5 hours east by bus from the town center, there was the small village of Oliva, surrounded by rolling hills and lush forests. In winter it is covered with snow and in autumn it is covered with red leaves. In this village, the electricity supply from the town was insufficient, so villagers wok...

Martenitsa: The Symbolism Behind Bulgaria’s Red and White Tradition

Martenitsa is a beloved Bulgarian tradition that has been celebrated for centuries. This red and white symbol of spring is worn throughout the month of March, and it represents new beginnings, good health, and good luck. In this article, we will explore the fascinating history and symbolism behind m...

Ranking All Sneakers in the Off-White x Nike “The Ten” Collaboration

Virgil was given the power to work with ten of Nike’s most iconic sneakers and design them to his liking and the result was extraordinary. The collaboration began with just ten sneakers but due to the extreme popularity, it has now grown to a total of 35 pairs. What Nike has done over the p...

What socks to wear with white sneakers

Many people wear attractive socks to make their look more attractive. Here socks play quite an important role. Such is their look and comfort. Some people don’t just wear socks for looks and comfort, they wear socks to match the color texture of their outfit. And when it comes to white s...

Shop White Sneakers

These sneakers have a thicker sole that can add height and make your legs look longer. They can be a fun and stylish option for a night out. When choosing a pair of white sneakers, it’s important to consider the material, fit, and price. Leather sneakers are more durable than canvas sneaker...

Best OFF WHITE products

The most successful + hyped Off White products yet. 1. The belt The Mini yellow industrial belt with metallic silver buckle is super unique and super popular. Read More

White Boys and Cornrows

Familiarity doesn’t necessarily breed contempt — especially when it comes to travel. In my globe-trotting experience, places that remind me of somewhere else often make the best impressions. My husband and I recently returned from a seven-day Caribbean cruise that docked for one morni...

5 Best White Foundations & Face Paints

Whether you are shopping for your next corpse paint makeup, or simply want to let your imagination come to life, quality face products can produce vivid results. Choosing the best white foundation depends on your skin type and the coverage you’re looking for. Here are some options that are ...

The Un-Glamming of the White House Press Secretary: Jen Psaki’s Nude Matte Lip.

Emerging like a fresh-faced phoenix from the burning shards of an autocracy and perching herself on the lectern of the White House Press Room, there Jen Psaki was — subtly blushed and freshly mascara’d. A whisper of a shimmer-shadow brushed on her lid, as though an angel had blown it the...

Magic of White Eyeliner: A Brighter Gaze Awaits

In the ever-evolving world of beauty, certain trends come and go, but some gems remain timeless due to their sheer versatility and impact. Among these, white eyeliner stands out as a multifaceted tool that can transform your look with just a few careful strokes. Whether you're aiming for a bo...