Worse than Caste: 3 Tiers of Racist Ideology Bob Gordh I’ve been reading and pondering two recent books about race: Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson, and Afropessimism, by Frank B. Wilderson III. Though their authors’ last names differ by just a single letter, the two books could hardly be more different…

Derek Chauvin and Anti-blackness There is something even more terrible than white supremacy that has plagued the lives of Black Americans throughout American history and that still plagues their lives today. That “something”, Frank B. …

An Argument for Reparations for Black Americans By Robert Gordh There has been increasing discussion of late, in such places as magazine articles, blogs, and talk shows, of the possibility of reparations to African Americans for the many and massive crimes America has committed against them and their forebears. Such…

An Argument for Reparations (Condensed version) By Robert Gordh As long and as hard as the still unfinished struggle to eliminate discrimination against African Americans has been, it is tempting to think that if and when that goal is achieved, racial justice will finally prevail. In fact, however, even if…

In Praise of a Commitment to Antiracism: An Open Letter to the Superintendent and Board of the Santa Monica/Malibu Unified School District Dear Dr. Drati, Dr. Mora, Dr. Hawkins, Dr. Shelton, Mr. Howard and Members of the Santa Monica/Malibu Unified School District School Board: We have read ”Superintendent’s Message: Commitment…

Capitalism and the Depth Psychology of Racism By Bob Gordh James Baldwin: The question you got to ask yourself . . . the white population of this country’s got to ask itself is, “why it was necessary to have a nigger in the first place?” Because I’m not a nigger…

Thoughts on Dismantling Racism Bob Gordh Following the brutal, nationally televised murder of a Black man, George Floyd, by a white police officer, there have been massive ongoing protests and a dramatic national, and even international, upsurge of concern about the issue of race in the United States as well…

Reflections on White Fragility By Bob Gordh I admire the book White Fragility and greatly respect its author Robin DiAngelo. She is doing great work. I agree with almost everything in her book, and most of what I write below will be supplementary rather than contrary to what she says…