5/14 BUFFALO MASSACRE: BLACK LOVE, BLACK RESISTANCE
“You gon’ come to our city and decide you don’t like Black people. Man, you don’t know a damn thing about Black people…We never go to no neighborhoods and take people out.” Beth Kwiatek...
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THE OMISSIONS AND LIES OF LIBERALISM BY A WHITE CONSERVATIVE FAVORITE.
In late March, The New York Times published an opinion piece written by David Brooks, Canadian-born American conservative political and cultural commentator, titled “The Great Struggle for Liberalism”. It is love-letter to liberalism ....
How Should We Remember 9/11?
Beth Kwiatek & Henry-Louis Taylor September 11, 2023 How should we remember 9/11? It is a day for remembering and honoring. It is a day for learning lessons from the past. It...
Tension between the U.S. and China is growing.
People should be very concerned about the impact this might have on Chinese-Americans and all other Asian-American, Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. and Beth Kwiatek, May 2, 2023 Tension between the United States and China...
Defending Knowles right to speak smacks of cowardice
By Beth Kwiatek The UB President, Satish K. Tripathi and the Editorial Board of the Buffalo News were wrong to defend the presence of Michael Knowles, the “intellectually bankrupt bombast” who speaks “noxious content”...
Another Voice: Brown and his party disrespect the tenets of Democracy
By Beth Kwiatek
Read the full article from Buffalo News, here.
Byron Brown’s write-in campaign and the Democratic Party’s lack of support and protection for India Walton reflect a dangerous and growing trend within our nation: the subversion of democratic rule. Alarmingly, they have disguised those actions, including Brown’s behavior before and after the primary, as political strategies.
Another Voice: Education, not guilt, is the focus of Critical Race Theory
By Beth Kwiatek
Read the full article from Buffalo News, here.
CRT and whiteness studies argue that racism is not the consequence of the actions of individual racists, but that racism is embedded in the systems of our nation: legal, economic, education, religious and political. These systems all purport the myth of equality, but operate in a way that has always benefited whites and continues to do so.
Myths about America obscure its original sins
By Beth Kwiatek and Henry-Louis Taylor, Jr.
Reposted from Buffalo News
“Death, destruction and disease in the interest of power and profits are what built our nation. We cannot substitute mythology for history. Nor should we create an ideology that romanticizes and erases the brutality of that history.”
This moment calls for white Americans to become anti-racists
By Beth Kwiatek
“George Floyd’s killing by four white police officers, and the nonchalance in which it was enacted, has finally outraged white America. White America can no longer ignore or dismiss the reality of what it means to be black or brown in this country.”
THEY KNEW AND DID NOTHING
By Henry-Louis Taylor, Jr., Beth Kwiatek, and Ian Stern
“Pundits might need to educate the public about the issues, but it is old news to elected officials, public health experts, and urban planners. Yet, this knowledge was never translated into action, down on the ground, in Black communities to blunt the devastation.”