Race, Gender and Politics
This week marks the college equivalent to the dreaded slavery chapter in history. This week we read posts about the three topics that used to considered taboo. Though dialogue and discourse is salient, I often wonder if we’re making any hedge way. We talk and type and talk and type and nothing changes. People still believe the women in the ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ doc were fast lying gold diggers. The women who killed Botham Jean will be serving ten years in prison. Black men who’ve killed police dogs have gotten longer sentences. Today, the key witness in the case was shot and murdered in Dallas. I don’t mean to sound like I’m losing hope; I’m just checking in. This is a formal inquiry. Why aren’t we doing anything and how can we start? In the famous words on the late great Toni Morrison, how can we be expected to be both doctor and patient?
