What it means to be Black in America has changed with the election of Barack Obama as 44th president of the United States. What it means to be Black in America has also reluctantly remained the same since Barack Obama was elected 44th president of the United States.
The fact that we have elected an African-American [...]
Well, because he is and so is my daughter. I haven’t really thought about how his blackness might make others uncomfortable especially when it comes to describing him. I know this is something that I am going to deal with forever–people describing him as black in a negative way and in a positive way and [...]
I just read an interesting information pieceby the University of Washington about the tribal roots of both of my children. Minnow and Peepers are both of Oromo descent. Sadly, my son and daughter would have been second class citizens with no political autonomy in their own country because of their Oromo heritage. I had no [...]
something I will have to be aware of to effectively parent my Ethiopian children as a white mother/woman. Internalized racism is the taking on of the values and perspectives of the dominant culture–including things that are detrimental to a person’s own image or sense of self. For those of us raising girls–watch this…
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This post will be long….Be forewarned.
I think I am ready to get some thoughts down about the documentary The Color of Fear (1994). It was a powerful movie that has forced me to look into myself and to admit that there are many things about race that I still don’t and will not be able [...]
There will be much more to come on this topic later…The following clip is from the documentry The Color of Fear.
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I consider myself and educated person. I have read extensively and my liberal arts education exposed me to many things that I certainly didn’t learn in high school. Sadly, there is so much more that I didn’t know. I am taking the first class toward my doctorate this semester and it is a really great [...]
