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Redlining and the Many Effects of Slavery: Are You Willing to Act to Heal This Moral Injury?

February 26, 2019 No Comments

By David J. Ragland Recent headlines reinforce how little progress has been made in terms of economic justice for African Americans. An exhaustive report by the Center for Investigative Journalism examined current redlining practices that fuel gentrification. Combing through over 31 million mortgages, investigators found that bankers regularly sidestep the Fair Housing Act. They are more likely to provide loans

New Korean Summit: Possible Steps Forward for Asian Security

February 25, 2019 No Comments

On February 27-28, the leaders of the United States and North Korea will meet in Hanoi, Vietnam. The place of the meeting has symbolic overtones, especially for Americans, that the earlier summit in Singapore did not. The new summit will build on the earlier summit, but also on events since. The summit meeting in Singapore on June 12, 2018 of

The Case for Interpersonal Reparations

February 24, 2019 No Comments

“If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn’t even begun to pull out the knife.” –El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X) Slavery, white pillage, and settler

The Case for Interpersonal Reparations

February 24, 2019 No Comments

“If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn’t even begun to pull out the knife.” –El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X) Slavery, white pillage, and settler

Turtle Island Immigrant: Do Americans of European descent need an exit strategy from Whiteness?

February 23, 2019 No Comments

It’s all about demographics. In 2015, the Census Bureau reported that 50.3% of children younger than five already belonged to “minority” populations. By 2044, the Bureau projects, the United States will be a “majority minority” nation. (Pew Research gives the transformation date as 2055.) This expectation has been widely publicized, and its impact is widely felt among White people who

Turtle Island Immigrant: Do Americans of European descent need an exit strategy from Whiteness?

February 23, 2019 No Comments

It’s all about demographics. In 2015, the Census Bureau reported that 50.3% of children younger than five already belonged to “minority” populations. By 2044, the Bureau projects, the United States will be a “majority minority” nation. (Pew Research gives the transformation date as 2055.) This expectation has been widely publicized, and its impact is widely felt among White people who