Rapid response to “low-class Italian white trash”
What a coincidence! Just a few days after posting the two pieces below about responding to classist comments, I heard a doozy – and I... Read More
Responding to Verbal Classism
When I hear a classist put-down, I feel like Derek Zoolander in the Ben Stiller movie Zoolander, tongue-tied and unable to come up with a... Read More
Special Delivery: Mexican-in-a-Box
I found myself an unprepared witness to a classist/racist “joke” where and when I least expected it. Should I have intervened? Is there a way... Read More
Don’t be a classist anti-racist!
While naming “white privilege” is an important part of exposing and dismantling structural racism, I can see how the term “privilege” is hard to swallow... Read More
Deep Interrelatedness and Transformation
Perhaps ending classism is not so much a political process but a spiritual one. Humanity is evolving! We are at a new and extraordinary threshold... Read More
It’s Not Butter: The Other Tax Spread
Congress and the White House are wrangling over the future of the Bush tax cuts, which expire this year. Much has been written about how... Read More
Defending my vibrant neighborhood
Recently four people were killed about ten houses away from where I grew up in Mattapan, a neighborhood of Boston. The neighborhood was maligned by... Read More