Drick Boyd's Blog
Talking to White Folks About Race: Be Relentless
Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
Talking to White Folks About Race: Responding to the Guilt, Shame of Powerlessness of White Privilege
This is the seventh in a series of postings where I share some thoughts on how to talk with the whites in our families, workplaces, organizations and social networks about the difficult topic of race. I don’t claim to be an “expert” on the topic, but rather am one...
Talking to White Folks About Race: Challenging Historical Myths and Distortions
Let us keep in mind that we are calling people to live up to the values and ideals that our founding documents and faith traditions call us to. We are calling our white brothers and sisters out of blindness and defensiveness into the light of freedom and truth.
Talking with White Folks About Race: Colin Kaepernick, Black Lives Matter, & White Deflection
We must encourage, invite and even cajole our white friends and colleagues to face the reality people of color face every day in our society.
Talking with White Folks About Race: The Things White Folks Say, Part 2
So whites, however we try to cut, have no claim to historical innocence, only historical ignorance.
Talking with White Folks About Race: The Things White Folks Say, Part I
This is the third in a series of postings where I share some thoughts on how to talk with the whites in our families, workplaces, organizations and social networks about the difficult topic of race. I don’t claim to be an “expert” on the topic, but rather am one...
Talking with White Folks About Race: Start with Their Story… and Listen
A New Conversation on RaceSeveral years ago, I joined a group called NewCORE, which stands for New Conversations on Race and Ethnicity. NewCORE came into being after then-Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama delivered the now famous speech, "A More Perfect...
Talking with White Folks About Race: Start with Yourself
I am suggesting that awareness of our own struggles with racism can keep us humble when we talk with others
How to Talk to White Folks About Race- An Introduction
I want to make this to ber a practical, heart-to-heart sharing of lessons I have learned along the way about how we can talk with our fellow whites about a topic many whites would rather ignore: race.
A White Guy’s Reflections on Charlottesville
Ever since the horrific events in Charlottesville, where an angry crowd of mostly young white men spouted neo-Nazi and white supremacist slogans, and violently clashed with those confronting their message and their vitriol, I have been mulling over the deeper...
Who is Paulo Freire and Why Should You Care?
Recently, James Kirylo (Professor of Education, University of South Carolina) and I published Paulo Freire: His Faith, Spirituality and Theology. This book was for me a longtime dream and a labor love that began ten years ago when I wrote a paper on “Paulo Freire’s...
Three Questions NOT Being Asked in the Health Care Debate
Now the folks justifying these outrageous numbers (like Pat Toomey) will tell you that the issue is complex and beyond our understanding. Actually, it is really quite simple. Healthcare companies, Big Pharma and our healthcare corporations have lobbyists who line the pockets of our political leaders, and poor and middle class people don’t.
What would Frederick Douglass say to Donald Trump?
For the past several years on or around the Fourth of July, I have made a practice of re-reading portions of Frederick Douglass’ famous July 5, 1852 speech in Rochester, NY entitled “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Speaking at the height of a...
What if the Poor Wrote the Health Care Bill
A lot of ink has been spilled over how unfair and “mean” the Senate’s proposed health care bill. As one headline had it: “Shifting Dollars from the Poor to the Rich is a Key Part of the Health Bill. ” In order to lower the overall cost of the bill, the Senate proposal...
Announcing My New Book – Paulo Freire: His Faith, Spirituality and Theology
I am happy to announce the release of my latest book, co-authored with Dr. James Kirylo for the University of South Carolina. James and I had a chance meeting three years ago in Philadelphia at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association. We...