Why being anti-racist is not enough
Your Voice
By Richard Zitrin
Richard Zitrin.
To my white progressive friends: To say that last spring’s killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor shook me would be an understatement. I also was shaken by the depth of my multiracial daughter’s anger including at her entire white family and I found myself thinking long and hard about my own racial culpability.
Eva Paterson, an old friend and a civil rights activist, suggested I write something from my perspective: a white guy who has considered himself an anti-racist for nearly all his 73 years. When I asked whether I should be speaking, she said, “Yes, because our white ‘liberal’ and ‘progressive’ supporters don’t get this. Speak to them.”
Scenes from Wednesday of the mostly white group of violent extremists storming the US Capitol, easily pushing past a sparse and subdued police force, contrasted sharply with the overwhelming response by law enforcement to largely peaceful, multiracial Black Lives Matter protests last summer.
hollywood. although she doesn t make an issue of it, but when it comes up he says as a line producer you get to hire a large number of people. he hires the best people at the best price he can get, and he has been accused of the usual things, of discriminating against people. he was working on a film which was essentially a black film and hired a crew of equal number of blacks and whites and was told to hire an assistant director who was black and he hired a white guy because he was better qualified and got him at a better price and so i asked him this must have cost you work and he said i sure it has. but at the end i have to live with myself and with what i tell my children and if i don t get to work on spider-man vii that isn t the worst thing in the world. host: that is a great closing line. .. i think people on the left can profit from reading it. it s noting a ignorant book, it doesn t call names. it s funny. so it s a great book to take on a flight, read in bed, or