In 1939, Indiana high school basketball star George Crowe was involved in a race-related controversy — not his own doing — that received widespread newspaper coverage at the time but has been lost in history since, buried so deeply that even Crowe himself, today, can’t recall there was ever any fuss. But there was. And it revealed the ahead-of-its-time greatness of Indiana.
Over the weekend there was an Associated Press article circulating online called “Is Barack Obama Black?“ It’s such an asinine question. The article begins like this: A perplexing new chapter is unfolding in Barack Obama’s racial saga: Many people insist that “the first black president” is actually not black. First of all, why is Barack [...]
This one was interesting because many people of one race (or another) completely agreed with me, while others of the same race completely disagreed. And so on.
I’ve long believed there’s no such thing as racism. Don’t get me wrong. “Race” exists. Culture exists. Ethnicity exists. But, are we focusing so much on racism that we’re forgetting about addressing its causes? I think racism is really just a symptom of something else — not having enough to do, not having enough to [...]
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