Anti-Racism II

CU Boulder

Introductory Blog Draft to Anti-Racism II

I’m currently engaged in my third on-line college level course focused on Anti-Racism. Being a white guy, I’ve been feeling the pinch of critical thought regarding People of Color and the North American Indigenous Peoples (I like the Canadian appellative, First Nations) these past few years. Though I don’t feel a lot of personal guilt, the learned discussion and angry individual and corporate responses to alleged injustices over the past several hundred years can’t help but have gained my attention. After all, I’m supposed to be a good guy . . . right?

I believe there is a social construct that includes ancestral awareness and generational responsibility. Therefore, though I don’t think I’ve made any substantive contribution to the current climate of “racial” unrest, I do think I need to recognize that my white ancestors did, and that I must not only accept the historicity of these difficulties but do what I can—both by intellectual accent and active participation—to assuage the damage done and address what social justice requires.

To this purpose, I thought I’d post over the next few weeks the various short pieces required of me by the design of the course . . .