Sunday January 10, 2021 - 08:06:00 PM
In case you happen to be a teacher or a parent, saving press accounts, photos and videos from last week in D.C. will provide you with excellent illustrative teaching aids for some important topics. The first insight leaped from the screen on Wednesday into our phone calls with friends and family.
Those in the Eastern time zone were first aware of what was up. Three of them called me early, within an hour of each other: an African-American woman friend with major Democratic political experience in the Midwest, a White woman raised as a Southern Baptist who’s now back in the new South, a Catholic cousin in the D.C. area active in social justice movements. All four of us had the same observation: we were seeing White Privilege in action. All of us knew that if that surly mob of rioters had been Black they’d be dead.