by lindaoppenheim | Jul 15, 2016 | Opinion
What you see depends upon where you stand. Nicholas Kristof notes the difference in perception of racial incidents between whites and African Americans. “Even in the last decade, almost two-thirds of white Americans have said that blacks are treated fairly by...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 3, 2016 | Continuing Conversations, Opinion
As a follow-up to his series of columns in 2014, Nicholas Kristof points out the “racial disparities . . . [that] are as grave as ever”: wealth, sentencing, exposure to environmental hazards, education, job opportunities, etc. He refers to an NBA study...
by lindaoppenheim | May 29, 2015 | Continuing Conversations
Please join us on Monday, June 1, 7 p.m., in the Story Room (3rd floor) for our monthly Continuing Conversation on Race and White Privilege. The focus this month will be “Assumptions.” When we see someone of another race, what are the assumptions, the unconscious...
by lindaoppenheim | May 11, 2015 | Opinion
Can people overcome hard-wired reactions? Kristof discusses the difficulty in doing this in his May 7, 2015 column. “[The brain] categorizes people by race in the first one-fifth second after seeing a face. Brain scans show that even when people are told to...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 17, 2014 | Article, Opinion
Nicholas Kristof published the fourth installment of his series entitled “When Whites Just Don’t Get It.” He addresses “personal responsibility,” an issue raised by some of his readers, and reminds them that “centuries of racial...
