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5 Reasons White People Can’t Talk about Race
Say, you gathered a group of five of your White friends and five of Your Black friends and asked them to have a no-holds barred discussion about race. My prediction echoes Major Strasser in Casablana, “You would find the conversation a trifle one-sided.” Your… Continue Reading “5 Reasons White People Can’t Talk about Race”
Good White Person: Start Where You Are
For the past eight months, people in Milwaukee have been waiting for an official determination of whether a police officer would be charged with shooting and killing an unarmed man he found sleeping in a public park. From the way I phrase that, which… Continue Reading “Good White Person: Start Where You Are”
Say What You See
I started my professional life at 27 as a White girl in a Black anti-poverty agency called the Social Development Commission where the first day I was called out for shrinking back from a hug offered by an associate director who laughed at me… Continue Reading “Say What You See”
Snow Door | wisconsinacademy.org
Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
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