Against normalizing Trump and his ways
Normalizing Trump’s vile campaign is wrong. And we already made that mistake before. When I heard Hillary Clinton said ‘We owe him [Trump] an open mind and the chance to […]
Tag Archives: racism
Go local, young activist…and old and go deep and embrace
Go local, young activist…and old and go deep and embrace. I don’t care about people’s hearts. I want to change policies in a way that people’s darkest feelings cannot affect others.
We need #OneMovement for another reason. We need real, systemic change. We need to question the basic tenets of a system that keeps so many under so much stress and manages to make them believe it is their hungry neighbor who is doing it to them.
Trump’s supporters are my (our) people
Yes, I know this will shock those who know me even casually, given my outspokenness against that national emergency called Donald Trump. However, I do mean it: Trump’s supporters, the […]
Ben Carson and the house negro game
Some look at Ben Carson, one of the Republican candidates for president, as showcasing a supine scientific ignorance that should be surprising, given his great medical acumen. I do not […]
Baltimore and the “good Negroes” hypocrisy of media and pundits
Isabel M. Estrada-Portales, Ph.D., M.S. But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that […]
Mistaken black child, reparations and white entitlement
By Isabel Manuela Estrada Portales, Ph.D., M.S. We have always known that a racist, discriminatory system harms everyone, including those doing most of the harming. As Toni Morrison would ask, […]
Researching race, crime and policing: Controlling variables into meaninglessness
By Isabel Manuela Estrada Portales, Ph.D., M.S. Science and research require methodology. A pillar of science is the ability to control for extraneous and confounding factors that will render the […]
