Nov 19, 2016
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A formidable group of authors, including Year in Reading alum Joyce Carol Oates, Steven Pinker, and Rich Benjamin, comment on Donald Trump’s rise to power. You could also consider this literary cage match between Trump, Faulkner, and Hemingway.
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It’s common to have racism without 'racists.'
Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America by Rich Benjamin
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“My road trip through the whitest towns in America”
Check out this much-watch TED Talks video - "A Black Man in America's Whitest Towns". In an honest and funny presentation, Rich Benjamin discusses his "road trip through the whitest towns in America" - a 27,000 mile trip, over a two year span, to the fastest growing and whitest counties in America (described as "Whitopias"). This explains a lot the denial and paranoia that white privilege and supremacy are built on.
(via: AfroPunk)
Rich Benjamin: My road trip through the whitest towns in America Whiteopia
As America becomes more and more multicultural, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA -- and moved in. In this funny, honest, human talk, he shares what he learned as a black man in Whitopia.
As Americans, we often find ways to cook for each other, to dance with each other, to host with each other, but why can't that translate into how we treat each other as communities? It's a devastating irony, how we have gone forward as individuals, and backwards as communities.
Powerful perspective of how we’ve grown as individuals but not as a community. Inspiration talk from Rich Benjamin. Although, there were moments people laughed at the most inappropriate time... IMHO.