I wonder about the white people I've met who like ER created friendships with people like me or never at all. Am I the first brown person in there home and whom have they have ignored?
I wonder about myself and how I can be more aware and able to be more welcoming. I am grateful for the example and transparence of ER - and I aspire to open my eyes to all that I don't know.
To consider that Eleanor Roosevelt had an article in Ebony magazine in 1953 describing her friendship with Black people is worth noting. Patricia Bell-Scott: "ER admitted in this candid piece that she had had no significant contact with African Americans or any awareness of racial discrimination until she was in her mid-teens. Not until adulthood did she develop genuine friendships with blacks and relate to them as "social equals." The story of Eleanor Roosevelt finding an alternative site for Marian Anderson to sing is somewhat well known, and to learn of her connections with Pauli Murray is heartening in both directions,
I wonder about the white people I've met who like ER created friendships with people like me or never at all. Am I the first brown person in there home and whom have they have ignored?
I wonder about myself and how I can be more aware and able to be more welcoming. I am grateful for the example and transparence of ER - and I aspire to open my eyes to all that I don't know.
To consider that Eleanor Roosevelt had an article in Ebony magazine in 1953 describing her friendship with Black people is worth noting. Patricia Bell-Scott: "ER admitted in this candid piece that she had had no significant contact with African Americans or any awareness of racial discrimination until she was in her mid-teens. Not until adulthood did she develop genuine friendships with blacks and relate to them as "social equals." The story of Eleanor Roosevelt finding an alternative site for Marian Anderson to sing is somewhat well known, and to learn of her connections with Pauli Murray is heartening in both directions,