By Larry Adelman
San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, June 29, 2003
We read this article in our PD last month and I thought that it was really powerful. Here's one excerpt from the article that encapsulates the main message:
Racism doesn't just come dressed in white
sheets or voiced by skinheads, but lies in institutions that,
like the FHA, have quietly and often invisibly channeled America's
wealth, power, and status disproportionately to white people.
Those advantages are passed on and accumulate, generation to generation,
giving us a head start in life. As Ohio State University law professor
john a. powell observes: "The slick thing about whiteness is that
whites are getting the spoils of a racist system without themselves
being personally racist."
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