Catherine House
Philadelphia, PA
Racism is a terrible, complicated knot that some have tried to improve through generations. Abolitionists and the four civil rights workers killed in MS gave their lives. Other people cling to old ideas even today. The overwhelming apathetic majority contributes nothing. Somewhere in the huge knotted mess a new cottage industry was created. Middle class, educated women of color who appeal to liberal white guilt and make themselves the recipients of sizable conscious-clearing donations. Then I think of the poorest, least educated families of color struggling to make ends meet while raising their children. How are these families being helped by their middle class, educated counterparts accepting donations on their behalf?
It is all part of the huge knot that gets tighter and harder to untangle.
