Daily racism, episode №1,245. Black sports bar owners called me recently to see if I would represent them in a legal matter against a city in Colorado. The city in question, just outside of Denver, ordered the immediate closure of their sports bar right in the middle of the very…

Teaching kids through behavior. — Years before I had kids, I recall standing in line to buy tickets to Adam Sandler’s “Happy Gilmore” when the woman in front of me, with her young daughter, asked, “How much for two tickets to see ‘James and the Giant Peach?’” The teenager working at the AMC ticket desk…

Getting to know the origins of so many Black Americans. — This summer I spent seven days in Ghana with young Black leaders from America who had come to reconnect with their ancestors and to confront the origin of much of today’s racial inequity and trauma. As many people know, Ghana was one of the countries where Africans and Europeans kidnapped…

The racism of Ron DeSantis. — There’s a lot of us who are convinced that Trump single-handedly made it in style to be racist again. Not that he invented racism. Or that America was post-racial when he came onto the scene. Or that we didn’t still have so much work to do. Or even that our…

The racism and sexism legacy of Bob Barker — The Price Is Right TV game show, which first aired in 1956, was a staple when I was a kid growing up in the 1970s and 80s. Everyone knew who Bob Barker was. He hosted and helped produce the show from 1972 to 2007. Even won Emmy Awards for his…

Language can transform society for better or worse. — We know words matter. When my kids were young, I was hyperaware of the words I used and how I acted. I knew instinctively that my kids were going to learn how to act in this world and how to treat others by observing me rather than what I told…

Learning about the world helps cure racism at home. — Mark Twain once said that travel is the cure for racism: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness …” (1869) We’ve all seen not-so-funny videos of Americans who don’t know how many states are in the U.S. Who can’t name the vice president. Or who can’t name the capital…

The way to avoid confronting racism. — In June 2023, a former U.S. intelligence official testified at a congressional hearing that our government discovered and then covered up evidence of aliens on Earth. The witness, David Grusch, alleged at a House of Representatives hearing that the Pentagon recovered crashed extraterrestrial vehicles and biological remains believed to be…

Let’s learn directly from the community. — There’s a gigantic disconnect between what many white people think is or isn’t happening to Black people and what most Black people in America experience. Here’s a significant reason why. Virtually every time someone points out the deep systemic racism that pervades many aspects of society — in housing, education…