Monthly Archives: June 2021

Reservations About the Okun and Jones Handout on White Supremacy Culture

Posted on June 19, 2021 by Doug Bennett

[What follows is a lightly edited version of what I sent to others participating with me in a recent series of trainings about diversity/equity/inclusion for an organization on whose board I serve.] In the materials I received for the diversity/equity/inclusion … Continue reading →

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Going Through Anti-Racism Training

Posted on June 18, 2021 by Doug Bennett

Especially in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd by policeman Derek Chauvin, organizations everywhere have approved anti-racism resolutions and committed themselves to anti-racist training for their staff and their governing boards.  How can we understand our complicity in … Continue reading →

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John McWhorter on ‘Systemic Racism’

Posted on June 12, 2021 by Doug Bennett

More on ‘systems’ and ‘structures’ in discussions of inequality and injustice. I recently read a piece by  John McWhorter titled Can We Please Ditch the Term Systemic Racism?  McWhorter is a bracing critic of the new orthodoxy about racism. [See … Continue reading →

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Systems and Structures in Today’s Discussions of Racism and Sexism

Posted on June 11, 2021 by Doug Bennett

“[T]hat suggests a larger, structural barrier to women’s career advancement.  ‘It’s systemic,’ Goldin told me.”  That passage is from Nicholas Kristof’s opinion piece in yesterday’s New York Times, entitled (in the print version at least) Vets, Pharmacists and Happy Working … Continue reading →

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