What are you reading?

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While waiting for my therapy session tonight, I read from a fairly recent issue of a magazine, they had on the table in the waiting room. Lots of amazing and very interesting articles, and even some sharp criticism of op-eds featured in prior publications, by readers themselves.

There was a main article that anchored the recent publication, which explored myths of race. Law, African-American studies and Sociology professor Dorothy Roberts presented her much studied and researched topic on why "Race is a political category that has been disguised as a biological one". The article starts out as an interview between Roberts and journalist, Mark Leviton.

The article is SO enlightening, that I can't just pick one or two quotes, plus it's an article densely populated by the many ways racism affects people of color and the intersectional dimensions of institutionalized racism across American institutions which have marginalized and hurt people of color, for way too long.

Roberts in-depth article is featured in the April 2019 edition of The Sun (pp., 4-13).


My favorite part of the magazine to read and contemplate upon is from the section toward the back, and they title of that particular section is called One Nation, Indivisible.

From the editor of The Sun: "One Nation, Indivisible" features excerpts from The Sun's archives that speak to the current political moment. You can read the full text of excerpted sections online at … www.thesunmagazine.org/onenation.

An interesting quote, from the very last page of the magazine, in the section titled: Sunbeams.

"We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary; or the inequalities that make it possible," ~ Michael Eric Dyson (left hand column, page 48).