My second blog entry - Racial Diversity
My second blog entry, as it turns out, is going to be about racial diversity. I recently attended the play, "American Son" by Chrstopher Demos-Brown. It offered, in an hour and half, an intense look into the issues of racial equity and race relations. As a non-profit professional, I've attended several hours of workshops and seminars about this same subject that didn't have the impact or the information-content that the play had. These constructs - and race is a construct just as gender is - are best viewed on the lattice of our own human stories rather than stand-alone abstract concepts. Several of these concepts and racially destructive policies, like red-lining, are tossed off in the play - in an almost weaponized way, the truth of which is not denied, and yet used to wound or denote the wedge in race relations. As I've stated already, I'm a genderqueer person, but I am also white, and, come off as male, so, my privilege I acknowledge in my interpretation...