As a white advocate in an ethnic minority context, I spend a disproportionate amount of my time trying to wrap my mind around why it’s so hard to mobilize majority culture leaders…
Tag: Diversity
Quick Review: Lincoln (The Movie)
After my review yesterday on the book Lincoln’s Melancholy and mentioning that I had read that prior to seeing the movie, I wanted to share some of my reflections from my experience…
Green Zone Leadership: Rose Colored Self-Congratulations
The past few days I’ve posted on themes related to the movie The Green Zone from a couple years back and the book that inspired that movie, Imperial Life in the Emerald…
Reflections on the LA Riots Pt 3 – Getting Along
“Can’t we all just get along?” This is one of those soundbites that I can always recall. I can hear it like it was yesterday. Maybe I can because this line was…
Reflections on the LA Riots Pt 2 – Exposing the Post-Racial
For those that tracked my last post, I’m taking a break from the series I’ve been doing on statistics, interpretation, and knowing to do some reflection on the LA riots which occured…
Personal Reflections on the LA Riots Part 1
It’s crazy to believe that the LA Riots or “civil unrest” was 20 years ago. As the media has been starting to take people back to what happened 20 years ago, I’ve…
Stats Lie Pt 4: Story & Stats
Did you ever see the Double Rainbow you-tube video? One of the greatest things ever and a reason I’m thankful for the internet. I’ll post it below for you if you haven’t…
Yoda’s Advice to the Marginalized
So I’ve started watching Star Wars: The Clone Wars with my young son. You never know when there’s going to be some good wisdom – and should we be surprised that Master…
Why I Should Watch More Barbie
….according to my six year old daughter Morgan. So I’ve posted a couple posts already about Barbie, the last being one about identity formation among young girls especially. I thought I’d make…