Monthly Archives: November 2009

Racism Doesn't Want to Look at Itself

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Sharon Gerald

Socrates might have us believe that the unexamined life is not worth living, but plenty goes unexamined in this life.  Or maybe we know it is there, and we look at it from time to time, but we’d rather not.  … Continue reading →

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To Poet School You Go

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Sharon Gerald

You are an English major because you don’t know what you want to do with your life, and reading and writing are like breathing to you, the easiest paths to sure As.  You haven’t particularly devoted yourself to them.  They … Continue reading →

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Ole Miss vs. The Klan as Clown

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Sharon Gerald

Thanks to the Huffington Post, I found this video of last week’s so-called Klan rally at Ole Miss. Watch it. Watch it through to the end. Ole Miss probably has the longest and most painful history of race issues of … Continue reading →

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Racism Doesn't Know it's Racist

Posted on November 28, 2009 by Sharon Gerald

I was eleven years old before I understood that the N word was offensive.  I’ve told this before to friends, and some have denied that this is even possible, but it was the 1970s in a small town in Mississippi. … Continue reading →

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Facebook, Poetry, and a Crisis of Audience

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Sharon Gerald

Once my nephew got in trouble at school for clowning around.  His mother did the only thing she could do and told him to quit that.  He said, “But you don’t know how hard I worked to become the class … Continue reading →

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