Journalist – Historian – Speaker
UPDATE: Dominican Star article on the protests. Administration has been speaking out in solidarity with the students and we’ll see what happens. Meeting today at 8:30 of Faculty to discuss actions. Last week African-American students at Dominican University protested racism on campus. Here are two videos. The first is a short protest in the cafeteria. …
For Southern Nationalists, slavery was better than modern taxation and the KKK was just a neighborhood watch. From a Guardian piece: Kiscaden, who owns a coal mine in Kentucky, had an equally peculiar interpretation of history. He disputed that Forrest was a a founding member of the Klan, which he said played a positive role …
A few months ago I wrote a CNN piece about the use of disclaimers as a way to get around offensive humor. My piece and subsequent blog was specifically on the context of Down syndrome jokes and disability humor. I believed, though, that there’s a broader language issue here. We say something terrible, we bracket …
Here are four stories literally just from last night (they happened at different times, but made news yesterday). They illustrate the way racism enables and is enabled by the cult of compliance. The cult provides an intersectional lens in which race and class dominate the middle, with disability not far behind. When these categories overlap in …