16Aug/08

REPOST: I have a few (3) more t-shirts available

August 16, 2008uncategorizedKathleen Cross

Calling a few adventurous anti-racists… I am conducting an experiment, and I need the help of ten people of various ethnic backgrounds who are willing to participate. The experiment will simply entail wearing

20Jul/08

How Could You Not Know This?

July 20, 2008uncategorizedKathleen Cross

Did you know there was a white woman who was murdered by the Klan because of her involvement in the American Civil Rights Movement? Did you know she was a wife and

12Jul/08

I Don’t Have a Racist Bone in My Body

July 12, 2008"race", anti-racist, heroes, i rant, privilege, seriously?, slavery, stereotypes, transformation, young peopleanti-racist, black people, middle passage, mixed race, racism, reparations, slavery, white people, white privilege, white supremacyKathleen Cross

I was returning home to Los Angeles on a flight from Atlanta, where I’d spent a couple of days at a writer’s conference. Weary from a weekend filled with late night poetry

30Jun/08

For Us, By Us

June 30, 2008activists, anti-racist, heroes, human unity, i rant, i rave, money matters, slaveryabolitionists, anti-racism, anti-racist, brooks brothers, fubu, gap kids, james and lucretia mott, nafta, slavery, sweat shops, the gapKathleen Cross

LUCRETIA AND JAMES MOTT ARE MY HEROES! Imagine you lived during a time when the clothes you wore were produced by slave labor. Oh… wait… that’s right… if you’re the average American,

23Jun/08

“People of color…were tired of holding our hands.”

June 23, 2008uncategorizedanti-racism, anti-racist, katrina browne, pbs, slave trade, slavery, tom dewolf, traces of the tradeKathleen Cross

I saw the film Traces of the Trade and was impressed most by its courage and its frankness. It is definitely interesting to watch the transformation of the family members as they begin to realize exactly what the

18Jun/08

James Breeden’s “Negro Woman”

June 18, 2008"race", privilege, slaverycharlotte breeden, cordelia hinton, field slave, freedom, hawkins county, house slave, james breeden, negro, pleasant breeden, rita doveKathleen Cross

On February 28, 1825, a white Tennessee farmer appeared before the Hawkins County Court with his black slave and two children he sired with her, with the intention of petitioning for their

07Jun/08

Slave Traders’ Decendants Face Their Ugly Truth

June 7, 2008uncategorizedanti-racism, documentary, katrina browne, pbs, slave trade, slavery, sundance, tom dewolf, traces of the tradeKathleen Cross

THIS FILM GIVES ME HOPE! CHECK YOUR LOCAL (PBS) LISTINGS! I want to write something compelling that will make you want to NOT MISS THIS FILM, but every review I attempt does not do this documentary justice, so

31May/08

A Scary, Twilight Zonish Thought

May 31, 2008uncategorizeddriving while black, dwb, police, privilege, race relations, racismKathleen Cross

On a winter’s night in 2004, I was driving down Middlebelt Road in the Detroit suburb of Livonia, Michigan with two black teenagers—my daughter Akira and my nephew Nathan* (*not his real

24May/08

‘Back Then Slavery Was Legal and People Didn’t Think of it As wrong’

May 24, 2008"race", education, human unity, i rant, seriously?anti-racism, anti-racist, antiracist, diversity, george washington, racism, slavery, thomas jefferson, thomas paineKathleen Cross

I can recall the exact moment my elementary school teacher fell off her greatest-teacher-in-the-world pedestal. It was a high, hard fall—I know because she fell on me, a freckle-faced “mixed-race” girl so

17May/08

What Does “Good” Look Like?

May 17, 2008"race", activists, anti-racist, human unity, they give"race", admire, anti-racism, anti-racist, equality, hero, racism, slaveryKathleen Cross

Let’s keep it real. It is a mistake to assume that a person who performs acts of “anti-racial goodness” has eradicated their own internalized racism. Most of the individuals who will be

10May/08

You Be White, I’ll Be Colored

May 10, 2008"race", anti-racist, heroes, that's LOVEabolitionist, anti-racist, harper's ferry, john brown, lovejoy, slavery, thoreauKathleen Cross

Let’s play a game. Come on, it’ll be fun. Well, maybe not fun, but definitely educational. Here’s how it goes. You be “white” and I’ll be… hmm… for lack of a better

03May/08

Proud to be White?

May 3, 2008"race", anti-racist, education, human unity, identity, young peopleanti-racism, anti-racist, benjamin rush, freedom high school, jean rankin, john rankin, lisa mcclelland, naacp, viola liuzzo, whitenessKathleen Cross

Lisa McLelland was a 15-year-old at Freedom High School in Oakley, California who yearned to belong to one of those campus clubs where students gather to celebrate cultural pride and a sense of shared

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