Surprise! Microaggression
Have you stepped into a microaggression and not known it? Chances are, you have. When it happened to me, it was a …
Hear something racist, what do you do?
Verbal self-defense: why do we need it? Silence in the face of cruelty or misinformation communicates that this kind of conversation is …
Love letter to America
Are you in an endless stream of “no, no, no!” these days when you think about America? I offer you my “yes, …
Who benefits from sanctuary?
What’s a sanctuary city? Sanctuary cities instruct their municipal employees not to ask residents about their immigration status. This allows immigrants–documented or …
Nazis in Massachusetts?
Swastikas are the stuff of Skinheads and KKK and not the stuff of Boston suburban school districts right? Wrong, wrong, wrong. Middle …