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August Book Club - White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

Meet August 28, 2019 at 7:00 pm for a discussion of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo. The Praters will host at their home, 2000 Malvern Rd. Beverages will be available. Bring snacks if you wish.

Resistance Resources

Selected documents, Facebook groups, websites and more to help you #resist

Johnnetta Cole at Ohio State

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17th Annual National Conference on Diversity, Race & Learning

"Shifting Paradigms, Progressive Pathways to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion"

Johnnetta Cole, Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Rd, Columbus, OH 43210 (Map)

Cole directs the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art. She was president of Spelman College from 1987-1997 and Bennett College from 2002-2007.

Registration: OSU Office of Diversity and Inclusion http://odi.osu.edu/ncdrl

Kasich: I don't need your people

Kasich on all-white cabinet: No qualified candidates

John Kasich is the first Ohio governor since the 1960s to start his term by appointing an all-white cabinet. (And only five are women.) His reason? He couldn't find "qualified candidates." Sound familiar?

After an outcry, he has appointed one minority member -- Michael Colbert, who is black -- as director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. But Colbert had previously been serving as interim director of the social welfare agency.

When the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus offered to help Kasich diversify his cabinet choices, he told them, "I dojohn kasich jpgn't need your people." His staff later said he meant Democrats, not people of color. What?

State Senator Nina Turner (D-District 25, Cleveland) recalls Kasich's rebuff (from the Jan. 31, 2011, Ed Show on MSNBC). She points out that cabinet positions call for administrative skills, not agreement with Kasich's political outlook. And surely there are qualified people of color in Ohio, or in the country, who are experienced administrators.

Kasich's stance shows "strong insensitivity," Turner noted. We'll say. After all, Kasich already has skipped a remembrance of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- and issued a proclamation honoring the civil rights leader on St. Patrick's Day.

More:

I-Publist.com, "Ohio Governor Says, 'I Don't Need Your People'"

ThinkProgress.com, "Gov. Kasich to Black Lawmaker, 'I Don't Need Your People'"

 

 

 

Thank you, Pat Leahy


 

New Yorker Cover Illustration: Stupidity or Satire?

New Yorker Cover - Obama "fist bump"

Is the New Yorker way off base? Or right on target? The magazine famous for its satire has generated a lot of attention for its July 2008 cover illustration of Barack and Michelle Obama in the Oval Office, with abundant terrorist symbolism.

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