Category Archives: Race

Cascading climate consequences

Posted on December 2, 2021 by William Calvin

In describing climate consequences—the ones more serious than hotter summers—I feel as if I am describing top-down cascading failures. The classic example is the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, which in 2001 had collapsed, floor after floor, down to the … Continue reading →

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Author event – Daniel James Brown on Zoom Tuesday 7 PM

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Jim deMaine

Meet the Author: Daniel James Brown Meet the Author: Daniel James Brown Tuesday, November 2, 2021 Add to Calendar7:00PM – 8:00PM Online event. Click here to register. Honor Veterans Day with us during a discussion about Facing the Mountain, A True Story of Japanese American Heroes … Continue reading →

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Memoir by beloved resident Thaddeus Spratlen

Posted on October 27, 2021 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Alice M. for bring this to our attention. Knowing Thaddeus, this will be a true success story in a sea of racism where the storms continue. Journey Up from Down South describes what struggle, resilience, hope, and family … Continue reading →

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Information on the Seattle Police

Posted on October 25, 2021 by Jim deMaine

from Mike Caplow. Scroll down for the graphs and data.

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Saying farewell to a friend and visionary, Professor Emeritus Thad Spratlen

Posted on October 11, 2021 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Put B. for forwarding these memories of a cherished friend at Skyline. Ana Mari Cauce Yesterday, we said goodbye to a friend. But we also celebrated his truly extraordinary life and legacy with a community of people who … Continue reading →

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Heather McGhee’s Quest to End the Zero-Sum View on Race in the U.S. | Time Magazine

Posted on July 27, 2021 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Donna D. Heather McGhee was cooking dinner in her Brooklyn apartment in January as she opened a YouTube link to watch Joe Biden deliver his first speech on race as the President. As she bustled around the kitchen, … Continue reading →

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Racists defining “socialism”

Posted on May 15, 2021 by Jim deMaine

Notes from Heather Cox Richardson

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Thinking of Dr. Seuss

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Mary Jane F. Also, do liberals care if books disappear? Is there even room for discussion? Re “ Six Seuss Books Bore a Bias”  NYTimes column March 3 To the Editor: I do not like the righteous WokeI … Continue reading →

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A bright light for the future

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Jim deMaine

Amanda Gorman with James Corden – an interview. Thanks to Mary Jane F.

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Racial Equity for Black Washingtonians

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Al MacR.

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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Archival Footage

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Al MacR! In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, here’s a lovely two-minute immersion in amazing archival footage from the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. No doubt Dr. King would want us to remember … Continue reading →

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Memories from Georgia

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Mary Jane F. RE: Georgia Senate Election: Warnock delivering remarks virtually: “The other day, because this is America, the 82 year old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest … Continue reading →

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Running while black in Seattle – new hope

Posted on November 24, 2020 by Jim deMaine

by Kurt Streeter in the NYT. Thanks to Mike C. for sending this in. SEATTLE — The bloom of the Black Lives Matter signs. That is what my son and I saw as we jogged through our mostly white neighborhood. … Continue reading →

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Five Great Things Biden Has Already Done

Posted on October 30, 2020 by Jim deMaine

by David Brooks in the NYT Many of our best presidents have been underestimated. Truman was seen as the tool of a corrupt political machine. Eisenhower was supposedly a bumbling middlebrow. Grant was thought a taciturn simpleton. Even F.D.R. was … Continue reading →

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These states are ditching Columbus Day to observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead

Posted on October 12, 2020 by Jim deMaine

A statue of Christopher Columbus at a downtown Los Angeles park is surrounded by a chain-link fence on October 9, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. The city council voted in August to replace Columbus Day, today, with Indigenous People’s Day, … Continue reading →

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Trump Sent a Warning. Let’s Take It Seriously.

Posted on September 30, 2020 by Jim deMaine

By Thomas L. Friedman in the New York Times President Trump has made it unmistakably clear in recent weeks — and even more crystal clear at the Tuesday debate —that there are only two choices before voters on Nov. 3 — … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 14, 2020 by Jim deMaine

Confessions of a white baby boomer on race relations By Alex Alben Special to The Seattle Times (thanks to Sue P. for sending this) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were my heroes growing up in New York … Continue reading →

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Abolish the Police? Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren’t So Sure

Posted on August 9, 2020 by Jim deMaine

What is it like when a city abandons a neighborhood and the police vanish? Business owners describe a harrowing experience of calling for help and being left all alone. By Nellie Bowles in the New York Times SEATTLE — Faizel Khan … Continue reading →

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The meaning of the monument to Teddy Roosevelt

Posted on August 6, 2020 by Jim deMaine
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HONORING A LIFE’S MISSION

Posted on August 5, 2020 by Jim deMaine

By Debra Adams Simmons, HISTORY Executive Editor – National Geographic Thanks to Gordon G. for sending this in. President Lyndon B. Johnson summoned John Lewis to a private meeting in the Oval Office on the morning of August 6, 1965. … Continue reading →

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Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Jim deMaine

By John Lewis Mr. Lewis, the civil rights leader who died on July 17, wrote this essay shortly before his death, to be published upon the day of his funeral. While my time here has now come to an end, I want … Continue reading →

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Seattle is no progressive paradise

Posted on June 26, 2020 by Jim deMaine

From the NYT by By Margaret O’Mara SEATTLE — Seattle’s police-free “autonomous zone” is coming to an end. After two largely peaceful weeks, shootings over the last several days near the Capitol Hill Organized Protest area, CHOP for short, left a 19-year-old … Continue reading →

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Racial inventory –

Posted on June 25, 2020 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Mary Jane F. – this is based on one developed by the Wellesley College Women’s Center some years ago. A Preface to this Inventory…. Since the subject of race has been brought again to front and center in … Continue reading →

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