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Supreme Court decisionsSo, we now see pictures of the so-called “pro life” people celebrating the partisan Supreme Court vote on Roe v. Wade. What are they celebrating, a religious victory, a political victory, or just that they finally won something?...
Recent Letters to the Editor from Don Melander and Lynn Rudmin Chong make excellent points regarding the importance of mixed-income housing. Both write that segregating groups by income when race is involved supports and perpetuates racism. I agree....
As Don Melander points out (Monitor, 12/17), evidence of our systemic racism is our acceptance of city ghettoes.A student I had when teaching at Mass Bay Community College one day told me that in her dominantly Black Boston neighborhood, “It’s easier...
I’m going to make this as short and clear, but not as sweet, as I can. Systemic racism in America is identified, represented and even explained by the persistent existence of one phenomenon in American history, culture, and experience: the urban...
Chinua Achebe borrowed the title of his great book from W. B. Yeats’ 1919 poem “The Second Coming,” which announced the collapse of the teleology that had driven western civilization since the birth of Jesus: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot...