Institutional Racism

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of what I think to be one of the most unfortunate and misguided U.S. Supreme Court decisions of modern times: San Antonio Independent School District vs. Rodriguez. (1) “(T)he Court held that there is no constitutional right to an equal education. In so doing…

Antisemitism by Erasure Part Duex: Microaggressions, full-blown aggression and race-related ignorance in NYS Office of Mental Health and Civil Service. In the electronic-communications era, hospitals share documents and sensitive patients’ information electronically. These kind of data, of course, is very sensitive and therefore highly secured and HIPPA regulated, to ensure…

In 1989, Oprah Winfrey produced and starred in the two-part TV miniseries, The Women of Brewster Place, which was based on Gloria Naylor’s award-winning debut novel. …

Former Acting Hunter Provost Dr. Valeda Dent was quoted as saying my Dept. can be a hellish place for Black Faculty and Staff to work.

Here are 5 sociological facts that explain the society we are living in. — In high school, I would’ve never thought that I would major in sociology. As a matter of fact, I didn’t even know what it was. But on a whim, I decided to take an introductory course because it fit my schedule. And I’m glad I did because it was one…

When the cartoonist Scott Adams made a statement that was deemed racist, he was not only denounced thoroughly in the media, but nearly every major newspaper, hundreds of minor ones, his book publisher, and his syndicate canceled his projects. It’s impossible to argue that his treatment is an example of…

The presence of legal equality doesn’t disprove the existence of institutionalized injustice — Of all the arguments made by conservatives to debunk the existence of institutional racism, one stands out above the rest as the most idiotic of them all. I’m sure you’ve come across it. It sounds like this: Institutional racism is a myth because, unlike during segregation, there are no laws…

In these latter days, as politicians and pundits parse what is and is not American History, whose stories can and cannot be told, I was encouraged to learn from my freshman son that he’d been assigned this book to read this heart-breaking book in his first college literature class. “Just…

We don’t. YOU do. Why do you (people) make everything about race? Truth be told, white people make everything about race. Those of us who are black and brown just see the circumstances and notify you. Some folks get angry and retort that we only “see racism” because we’re looking…