Over and over I have heard the same question arise from the average person: “Why does it always have to come down to a race thing?” It’s on Fox “news”, it’s in my news feed, it’s been tweeted, etc. etc. Often followed by them saying that the don’t care about color, and why don’t people […]
The Unbearable Lightness of Being…Black in America
Over the past several weeks, our country has been inundated with images, articles , rhetoric and friendship ending soundbites around the Michael Brown case, that has sparked a national conversation on the subject of race and race relations in this country. To say the discussion has been divisive would be to call the Winter in […]