by Louise | 28 May 2017 | Chapters, Early Years with Kyle |
Shockoe Baptist Church, Java, Virginia Reading time: 4 minutes “Black people come in all different shades, don’t they?” I asked my friend Crissa. “So will they notice I’m white?” “Honey,” replied Crissa, “they’ll notice.” It was May 2000, and I was asking Crissa what...
by Louise | 21 May 2017 | Current events and commentary |
At the Toastmasters Conference Reading time: 2 minutes I was at a Toastmasters conference yesterday, and a man I know asked me, “What did you think of the keynote speech?” I replied, “It was the quintessential story of a self-made American man.” I was completely...
by Louise | 14 May 2017 | Chapters, Growing-Up Years |
A happy couple Reading time: 2 minutes When I was in fourth or fifth grade, I wrote a short story that addressed issues of race. But the way I remember myself, that was long before I knew anything about race at all. So where did I get the idea to write about it? I...
by Louise | 11 May 2017 | Growing-Up Years |
From my junior high school yearbook. Notice how you can hardly make out the features of the two African American students? Reading time: 2 minutes It’s baffling, how you can be so used to something that you don’t notice it. Kyle likes that TV series The West Wing. One...
by Louise | 7 May 2017 | Suggestions and advice | Tags: Childhood teaching about race
Reading time: 1 minutes Have you ever asked yourself what your childhood taught you about race? I read this great paper by Robin DiAngelo, who looks at how people think about and deal with race and diversity, particularly white people. She came up with a set of six...
