Too through…
This might seem like a very strange blog for me to write since I devote much of my professional life to teaching, researching, and writing about race and racism in education. But, with the exception of my scholarly pursuits, I am through talking to White people about race and racism. My absolute “through-ness” (I know, a made up word) came to a head when my university covered up blatant racism (a man in a Trump costume had a noose around a man in an Obama mask at a recent football game and the university president called it “free speech.”) Below is a litany of what I am through with:
- I am through trying to assuage White tears whenever the topics of race and racism arises;
- I am through acting like I don’t notice when I’m the only Black person in a room of White people with authority and power;
- I…
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