Racial Disparity
Privilege and power ultimately determine what is a right. But it is possible to take that responsibility upon ourselves, in our daily lives, in how we act and speak to each other.
Despite our best intentions, declared at our country’s founding, people are not “created equal.” We are created along the whole spectrum of privilege and ability. Likewise, there are simply no “inherent human rights.” There are only the rights we decide to give each other.
As humans, we are unique in our ability to understand that others, too, have a light of consciousness within, with its own perspective, knowledge, beliefs, intentions, emotions, and desires. But we are also lazy.
- How Generations of Black Americans Lost Their Land to Tax Liens https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-06-29/tax-liens-cost-generations-of-black-americans-their-land
- The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/magazine/eugenics-movement-america.html
- Olfactory Racism https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/olfactory-racism/
- How Children Acquire Racial Biases: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-children-acquire-racial-biases/
- Civil rights law targets ‘cancer alley’ discrimination - https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-discrimination-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-fafd08c5dbbda68250b916709dc18ef9
- Watering while Black: anatomy of a pastor’s Alabama arrest - https://apnews.com/article/alabama-arrests-race-and-ethnicity-e8638d2a3c479526abee0acb894356d8
- The long, ongoing debate over ‘All men are created equal’ - https://apnews.com/article/religion-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-kevin-jennings-723c49581d8a78ee54a793716e5212b3