by Michael Burkart | Dec 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
In the last four months, we have seen racist incidents occur in public high schools or middle schools located across seven communities near Boston[1]. These towns are predominantly white. Note the percentages of whites in these towns: 65.5%, 77.4%, 90.6%, 93.96%,...
by Michael Burkart | Dec 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
In my April 26, 2021 blog , Inhabiting Whiteness – How Whites Keep the Racial Hierarchy in Place, I describe the ways whites strive to keep control, and fail to work as true equals with BIPOC folk. I believe one of the driving dynamics behind this common pattern of...
by Michael Burkart | Oct 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
You may have seen articles in the press about the issue of identify politics. Numerous white commentators depict it as something that is dysfunctional to the body politic. When these authors refer to identify politics, they are referring to the perspectives put...
by Michael Burkart | Oct 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s all too easy to rely on mainstream media for our sense of how racism operates. We are socialized to do so. However, mainstream media is run by Whites and their limited experience or perspective directly affects what they cover, and how they cover a given...
by Michael Burkart | Aug 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Today, we hear a lot about “diversity,” but diversity in itself does not end institutional racism. After all, on the slave labor camps (AKA “plantations”) there was plenty of diversity. Whites who owned those camps were hugely outnumbered by the enslaved Africans...
by Michael Burkart | Jul 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
The pattern we see in one organization after another is one where whites predominate in the upper rungs of management and in the highest paying jobs in business, the media, universities, the entertainment industry, and the legal system. For a while, institutional...
by Michael Burkart | Jun 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
When I first began to seriously investigate racism, and the role we whites play in perpetuating it, I felt hesitant and awkward. I realized that this issue was huge, and my understanding of it was fairly limited. Racial injustice really angered me, but I was not...
by Michael Burkart | Jun 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
It is very useful for leaders to anticipate the racial attitudes they are likely to encounter among the whites in their workforce. Knowing these attitudes enables leaders to be prepared to handle the ways these attitudes will manifest in behaviors among whites in...
by Michael Burkart | Jun 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
I realize that there is an increasing tide of fear in some quarters that whites will be “replaced” as our society becomes increasingly one where BIPOC people outnumber whites. Those that harbor that fear assume that BIPOC are waiting to impose revenge on whites for...
by Michael Burkart | May 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Back in May of 2020, George Floyd was murdered. The horrific act was filmed by a courageous bystander, and went viral. The aftermath saw demonstrations erupt in cities across the nation and across the world. Suddenly, the issue of racism filled the news. ...
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