Articles on race, racism, and white privilege

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• “The new White People’s Burden: Take a hard look in the mirror,” Houston Chronicle, September 11, 2005, pp. E-1, 5.

• "We are the results of what we want and what society allows us," Ogden Standard-Examiner, October 6, 2005, p. 7-A. Posted on Counterpunch, September 9, 2005.

• "The fears of white people," posted on ZNet, September 9, 2005.

• "White people's burden," posted on Alternet, August 31, 2005.
  

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  My original essays on white privilege
  

   

• "White privilege shapes the U.S.," Baltimore Sun, July 19, 1998, p.C-1.  Also distributed on the LA Times/Washington Post wire and used in papers around the country.

• "More thoughts on why system of white privilege is wrong," Baltimore Sun, July 4, 1999, p. C-1.
  

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  Other essays on race and racism

  
  

• “Lingering white supremacy in South Africa sounds much like United States,” Austin American-Statesman online, June 10, 2009. Also distributed as ZNet Commentary.

• “Diversity and the incoherence of journalism’s ideology,” Outlook (magazine of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association), Summer 2008, p. 9.

• “The sorrows of race and gender in the 2008 presidential election,” posted on Counterpunch and Dissident Voice, April 21, 2008.

• “The reality of race: Is the problem that white people don’t know or don’t care?” posted on Alternet, July 14, 2007.

• "Last Sunday: What to do with/about white folks," posted on Dissident Voice, Atlantic Free Press, and OpEdNews, January 29, 2007. Click here for a PDF file or a Word file with all five of the "Last Sunday" talks.
• "Saying goodbye to my ' Fargo' accent," posted on Dissident Voice and Atlantic Free Press, December 12, 2006.
• "Seeing branches, and a root," Daily Texan, October 16, 2006, p. 4-A. Also ran as "University response to racist “ghetto fabulous” party is less than fabulous," posted on Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, and OpEdNews.com.
• "'Crash' and the self-indulgence of white America," posted on BlackCommentator.com, March 23, 2006.
• "TV images don't bring change," posted on Common Dreams, October 26, 2005.
  
  
• "Bush isn't a racist -- just one more privileged, soulless person," Hindustan Times (India). Also published as "Like many songs of privilege, Bush harms us all," Madison Capital Times, October 10, 2005, p. 9-A. Posted on Counterpunch.

• "Illusions of superiority," posted on INTHEFRAY and Alternet, May 3, 2004.
  

• "What the 'Fighting Sioux' tell us about white people (and how we can change)," posted on Counterpunch, October 14, 2003.

   
• "Lynne Cheney's primer: G is for gloss over," Austin American-Statesman, July 3, 2002, p. A-15.
• "I know I'm a racist but ...," New Impact magazine (England), January/February 2002, pp. 28-30. Also posted on The Black World Today and distributed as ZNet Commentary, May 23, 2002.
  

• "34 words, 41 shots,"   Texas Civil Rights Review , posted April 14, 2001.
  

• "Don't deny the brutality of history,"   Dallas Morning News , February 6, 2001, p. 15-A.

• "Best we get comfortable with King the radical, too," Houston Chronicle, January 14, 2001, p. 5-C; Fort Worth Star-Telegram , January15, 2001; and San Antonio Express-News , January 15, 2001, p. 5-B.

• "Being colorbind does not offset innate advantages of white privilege," Kansas City Business Journal , January 5, 2001, p. 20.

• "Fleeing whiteness: A memoir about achieving humanity," Texas Observer, June 23, 2000, pp. 26-27.

• "The morally lazy white middle class," Poverty & Race, November/December 1999, p. 12.

• "Justice goes unserved for a Texas girl; Class, race emerge in child's conviction for a toddler's death," Baltimore Sun, September 13,1998, p. N-1.