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This week I spent some time at a cabin in the woods with no electricity and no indoor plumbing.  You know - that kind of scene that white people think is special treat and a privilege and some people of color think of as just being what it’s like it to be real stinkin’ poor, and therefore not a “va…

If you caught the last episode of WUWK?! you got to hear the story of me trying to receive some feedback on whether some stuff I’d written was steeped in white supremacy and white privilege despite my best efforts to not do that.  Let’s just say that I was less than graceful in receiving the feedba…

How do white people learn to be less racist?  Well, sometimes it's by being told that we've just said something racist.  That feedback always sucks, but what we choose to do with it is what matters in the long run.

Hi and thank you for listening to WUWK?!  We’re rapidly approaching the arrival of what I think might be the first ever federal holiday celebration of Juneteenth, seeing as how the house and Senate both just gave approval for making it a federal holiday!  With that in mind, I have been pondering ho…

What do mindfulness and racism have to do with each other?  If given a choice between sitting on a cushion with your eyes closed and showing up at a BLM rally, could sitting on your butt actually make a bigger difference in cosmic battle to eliminate racism?  I have no idea.  But let’s explore the …

A few weeks ago someone requested a little more content on the idea of white culture or white supremacist culture.  This episode focuses on the work of Tema Okun, a white woman who returned home frustrated from a meeting one day and jotted down 15 aspects of what she saw as white supremacy culture …

A few weeks ago someone requested a little more content on the idea of white culture or white supremacist culture.  This episode focuses on the work of Tema Okun, a white woman who returned home frustrated from a meeting one day and jotted down 15 aspects of what she saw as white supremacy culture …

This week on WUWK?!  It’s just a bit of pondering about languages that we learn and teach in our schools, and languages that we don’t. 

When I first told people about the WUWK?! podcast project, a number of the white people initially involved expressed an interest in hearing more from people of color about their experiences with racism.  Maybe because some of us white people didn’t have too many friends who weren’t white to talk to…