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Posted Monday, September 27, 2021 5:00 am

By Sara Ford

On Sept. 14, the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice hosted a town hall on being White in a multicultural society. Both Black and White panelists were aware of the greater struggles of Black people in our society and of White privilege and easier access. One of the most poignant comments made by a Black panelist was “I always have to be on the defensive” vis-à-vis her race, an experience none of the White panelists has ever had.  Read the entire commentary here.

COMMENTARY

The Cape Gazette | August 24, 2021 

“You can’t tell me what to do!”  “You’re trying to take away my freedom.”  “That’s an attack on my individual rights.”  “It’s my choice.  It has nothing to do with you; it’s all about me.”

Me, me, mine, I, I, I.

And so, here we are once again in the midst of a COVID surge, spreading with alarming rapidity because of the new variant.  Yet, even as states are experiencing more new cases, more deaths, a large swath of people continues to refuse to be vaccinated and refuse to wear masks.  Being told to do so is an attack on individual rights and personal freedom, they argue.  At this point, with our country so painfully polarized, even a request is taken as an affront.

Read the entire Cape Gazette commentary here.

The Cape Gazette COMMENTARY

Sara Ford – March 30, 2021

The recent murder of eight people, six Asian-American women, one white woman and one white man, was utterly despicable, as was the reason the killer gave that he is a sex addict and saw such women as temptations that he wanted to get out of his way.  When asked in an interview if these murders were hate crimes, Keisha Lance Bottoms, mayor of Atlanta, said, “This was targeted at Asian spas. Read the entire Cape Gazette commentary here.

THE CAPE GAZETTE

February 23, 2021 

In his 1965 essay, “The White Man’s Guilt,” James Baldwin pleaded, “White man, hear me….History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.”

One of America’s great thinkers and writers, Baldwin loved his country deeply, even as he relentlessly criticized it with needle-sharp poignancy and vision.  A central tenet of his criticism was America’s unwillingness to confront the hard truth of its history, the country’s imperfect founding, based on the economics of enslavement, the treatment of human beings like cogs in a machine which, when broken, are simply thrown out and replaced.

Read the entire commentary here.

The Cape Gazette January 28, 2020   Dr. Marlene A Saunders I want to share with you what I learned by participating in seven Dialogue to Action meetings that took place Sept. 25 to Oct. 30, and Nov. 16 in Georgetown and Lewes. The sessions focused on understanding racism (primarily anti-Black) and inequality, and identifying strategies […]