Lorde has a poem examining her anger at Whites killing innocent Blacks. It’s a good caution as the Arbery trial nears its end.
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Lorde on Our Fury over Racial Killings
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The Arbery Killers, Today’s Slave Catchers
The men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery are like the slave catchers in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
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Only What Is Human Can Be Foreign
Szymborska’s beautiful poem “Psalm” provides the perspective we all need on immigrants at the border.
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Using Brecht to Explain U.S. Gun Laws
Brecht has as clear an explanation as any as to why gun laws are tilted towards Whites.
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White Privilege Explained in Oral Poetry
Tennessee teacher Hawn was fired in part for showing a video of an oral poet reciting this poem about white privilege.
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Faulkner on Racism’s Deep Roots
Faulkner’s “Intruder in the Dust” shows how deep into the American psyche racism reaches, helping explain the spate of police killings or unarmed Blacks.
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Why I Think the Way I Think
I survey my intellectual history, especially the evolution of my thinking about literature’s impact on human behavior.
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How Whites Cancel Readers of Color
Rightwingers complain that liberals are canceling Dr. Seuss. Real cancelation, however, uses racial stereotyping, of which Seuss was occasionally guilty.
