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I got a good bit of positive feedback on my last entry on “othering.” I’d written: Othering is, I believe, a necessary precursor to oppressio... Read More →
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Othering is, I believe, a necessary precursor to oppression. “Othering” involves what the sociologist Yiannis Gabriel has described as “casting a... Read More →
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I’ve gotten a good amount of feedback on last week’s blog message which ended with a call to “cut off the blood supply” of structural racism by... Read More →
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A friend and I had a frank phone conversation last week. She’d read the AEU’s statement on George Floyd and the Aftermath and my blog message and... Read More →
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Some deaths are especially personal. Recently the Ethical Movement lost one of its own longtime members, Bob Gordon, who succumbed to cancer on... Read More →
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After 4 or 5 hours of struggle I abandoned my Memorial Day blog post. In the end the topic was too big and the space too small for my capacities.... Read More →
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Sunday’s Zoom crash got me thinking quite a lot about vulnerability and frustration. I always look forward to Sunday platform meetings and... Read More →
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Thank you to all who have contributed to the American Ethical Union’s #GivingTuesdayNow campaign! We raised almost $4600 and will be sending... Read More →
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One of the pleasures of being the executive director for the American Ethical Union is that I can visit the member Societies on a pretty regular... Read More →
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the American Ethical Union’s participation with GivingTuesdayNow. In my efforts to understand how it’s supposed to... Read More →
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My wife’s grandmother was fond of saying “you get used to hanging, too.” Perhaps that is what is happening for me. I can’t say that I am in... Read More →
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Highlights for last week include the use by a number of Ethical Societies of the Connections calendar. There were twenty public online events... Read More →
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"As a white, taxpaying, home owner, I believe it’s his duty to protect me and my interests rather than the other way around. I also believe that my friend, who is a Black, taxpaying, homeowner ought to be perceived as a boss of the police chief in her town – but she didn’t see it that way and was surprised that I saw myself in the position of power vis a vis the chief."
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Othering is, I believe, a necessary precursor to oppression. “Othering” involves what the sociologist Yiannis Gabriel has described as “casting a group, an individual or an object into the role of the ‘other’ and establishing one’s own identity through opposition to and, frequently, vili...1 ·
"I felt that my dignity was taken away," Gilliam says of his arrest and the subsequent hours he spent sitting in the police station. "I felt like less of a human. I felt inferior to the white officers who were there."
The duty and burden of the black police officer
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David J. Thomas grew up in Detroit in the 1960s, two blocks from the headquarters of the 10th Precinct. Nighttime echoed with .50-caliber machine guns. Mornings dawned over neighborhood rubble. Thomas remembers being 11 years old, approaching a squad car outside the corner store and asking a police....2 ·
America doesn't just have a police problem: It has a morality problem
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I fear that until the persistence of racism and hatred in the American fabric is radically mitigated, police killings will inevitably continue.3 ·
What We Could Be (Flag Waving Day) - Tony Stiker
What We Could Be (Flag Waving Day) - Tony Stiker
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WARNING: The following video contains scenes of a disturbing nature, including police brutality, racist and profane language, and extreme violence against pe...6 ·
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