Tag: USA: KKK racism and bigotry

NOVANEWS By Zenobia Jeffries, YES! Magazine  Last year, following the presidential election, I wrote a column suggesting that people who identify as White consider working in their own families and communities to address the racism and bigotry that helped to put Donald Trump in office. I asked what if the well-intentioned White allies who have moved to urban centers to "help" communities of color had instead remained in their own communities -- however racially regressive and intolerable -- and worked to make them better at engaging in race relations. I later discussed two communities doing this kind of work. In Maine, a Truth & Reconciliation Commission investigated how generations of Native children had been taken from their homes, against the wishes of their families, and pla...