by Barbara Chiarello | Sep 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
America is suffering from whitism, a creed that rests on disabling lies. Whitism engenders the belief that the world was made to serve whites. Therefore, coal mining and manufacturing jobs must be coming back because why should whites have to adjust to a changing...
by Barbara Chiarello | Sep 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Trump has turned living in America into riding a roller coaster. He lies; we lurch from side. He fires his opponents; we close our eyes in fear for the Constitution. He mishandles the coronavirus pandemic; we suffer unnecessarily as the cars speed down too fast by...
by Barbara Chiarello | Sep 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
White superiority is killing America. More than the cult of selfishness, which New York Times columnist Paul Krugman blames for America’s catastrophic response to the pandemic, the ingrained self-delusion required by white supremacy has rendered the American public...
by Barbara Chiarello | Sep 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Although Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes died over fifty years ago, his poems speak to the outpouring of anger and grief we are seeing in cities all over America. In his poem “Harlem,” Hughes asks, “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up . . . or...
by Barbara Chiarello | Sep 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
At President Trump’s Oklahoma rally, attendees had to sign a document promising not to hold “Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.; BOK Center; ASM Global … liable for any illness or injury.” Future events should require attendees to also sign a document promising that...
