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CSUSM: The results of electing inaction
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Do something. In the face of hatred, apathy will be interpreted as acceptance — by the perpetrators, the public and, worse, the victims. Decent people must take action; if we...
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Women don’t need hoodies
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt In Sanford, Florida, in the hopeful days heralding the Ides of March, in possession of convenience store treats, adorned in his teenage hoodie, African-American student Trayvon...
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The dark side of the rainbow
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Writing about prejudice can be a challenge. I was born into a happy little privileged space. I’m basically a nice white gal, daughter of the hegemonic norm. What the hell do I...
View ArticleTranslating Mitt Romney
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt 16 October 2012 Presidential Debate excerpt: Candy Crowley, Moderator: Governor Romney, pay equity for women? Gov. Mitt Romney: Thank you. An important topic, and one which I...
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Who’s been hit with the stupid stick?
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt It’s been so, so stupid in political La-La Land of late. Bad stupid! One might have thought we’d enjoy a reprieve after the presidential elections. But, no. And there’s just so...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving
Taking a break to wallow in colonist guilt and sleep off the turkey. Please enjoy this thoughtful presentation by Aamer Rahman, entitled Reverse Racism.
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History’s answer to the caterwaul of the contemptible
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Some days, there seems no succor against the raging ignorance that plagues the United States. But others, there’s hope, and today, history has an answer: hearing loss. I first...
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Living as a Black Man in America
For Michael Brown/Ezell Ford and many others 08/21/2014 By Conney Williams i don’t understand how to feel anymore. about living as a black man. i don’t know how i’m supposed to live as a black man in...
View ArticleAs I Am: a film by Alan Spearman
From The Bitter Southerner He grew up in an impoverished Memphis neighborhood. He won the honor of introducing the President of the United States at his high school graduation. A year after that, he...
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twilight
by conney d. williams it is twilight in America. the time of living when it is most difficult for the sincerest of individuals to see injustice—black injustice—clearly. see it’s face, like a plump,...
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Zebra Mythology
By Karla Cordero sky never knew the taste of running bullet grass grew swirling like wild fingers our skin melting piano keys our music made between hoof & soil one day some god forced rain down...
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last night I dreamed I was born … black
By Conney D. Williams last night, night before twenty-four robins was at my door last night before the long & short hand of the time hugged midnight I dreamed I was born not breached or aborted...
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World status update from Fallbrook
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Thanksgiving day was warm in Fallbrook. We turned on the fountain, set the patio table and dined in the midafternoon sun, sipping a nice California pinot noir brought by a guest....
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When I Wake
By Conney D. Williams We must reach beyond the walls of self-imposed prisons, prisons we helped to build with ignorance on the foundation of systemic racism. At one time, most of our people believed...
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Test your implicit bias with science
From KPBS’ Independent Lens. “Created by Project Implicit, a research collaboration between scientists at Harvard, the University of Virginia, and the University of Washington, this...
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Racism Is Real
From Brave New Films ShareThe post Racism Is Real appeared first on kbgressitt.com.
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A Flower for the Graves
By Eugene Patterson Originally published in The Atlanta Constitution on September 16, 1963 A Negro mother wept in the street Sunday morning in front of a Baptist Church in Birmingham. In her hand she...
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President Obama’s Eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney
President Obama sings “Amazing Grace” at the 36 minute point. ShareThe post President Obama’s Eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney appeared first on kbgressitt.com.
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My ancestors owned people
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt My ancestors owned people. Look back three generations and, definitively, four of my eight great-grandparents were born into families that had purchased or inherited or bred...
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She thought my name
By Karla Cordero She thought my name: cute like kite string cute, koala cute. Thought herself resourceful when all three daughters share same stitched initials on their Catholic school...
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