"Together... Apart", 1993 Series of Articles on Race in New Orleans

Endesha Jukali, a housing activist, protests the rededication
Ceremony of a confederate monument on March 7, 1993.
(Kathy Anderson, Times-Picayune Archive)

A couple of articles in to this 1993 series on Race in New Orleans (Together... Apart, The Myth of Race), I'm reminded of how less able we seem to confront race than we were twenty years ago.  I remember organizing with classmates, led by sophomore Tiffany Brown, to get a Black History course at Ben Franklin High School in New Orleans.  

I was particularly reminded of how PC we've gotten by the article "White People Don't Want to Talk About It" by staff writer Coleman Warner.  The title would likely be called racist itself these days, but if you read it, you'll hear a cross-section of leaders in white communities listing salient and rational reasons why white people don't want to talk about race.   They make some very valid arguments about why white folks won't talk about race, and why they must.  It's worth a read... click the above link to get to it.

We may have spent the last 22 years stagnant or going backwards with regard to race...