A Big Eyed Fish

Tag: whiteness

  • Dear My Fellow White People

    Dear My Fellow White People

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    Rachel Grossman
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    Given the appropriate outpouring of condemnation that’s overflowed my social media newsfeeds since White Nationalists, Nazis, Far Right, and other all-White racist hate groups converged on Charlottesville, VA last weekend, I wanted to highlight two maneuvers of mental gymnastics which help White people protect themselves. Racists are Evil I saw this image on FaceBook a…

  • Go Set a Watchman in Your Home

    Go Set a Watchman in Your Home

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    by

    Rachel Grossman
    in

    Looking back, it was hardly coincidental that I picked up Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman shortly after DJT was elected to office. It was clearly the catalyst for my first steps of in-the-home activism. Watchman takes place in the 1950s, 20 years after To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout—now called Jean Louise—returns to her hometown…