by Stuart R. Sprague | Feb 23, 2021 | Opinion
Isabel Wilkerson describes systemic racism as a caste in her book Caste. She makes a compelling case for how this system continues to influence the U.S. social order, as I explored in yesterday’s article. If we accept her argument that our own society retains elements...
by Stuart R. Sprague | Feb 22, 2021 | Opinion
A series of sentinel events, culminating in the death of George Floyd, focused the nation’s attention on the many forms of racism in the U.S. The attempts to analyze, understand and address racism seem to point in a variety of directions. On the one hand, racism can...