When a Capital Letter Means So Much
The summer that shaped my later opinions I lead Western Oregon Editors, a group of editors that meets twice a month. We have heated discussions over such important matters as commas, hyphens, and dashes—em dashes not en dashes, in case you wondered. When we discussed the question of whether we should capitalize white and black…
White Privilege
The first time I recognized my privilege What was it like to be preverbal? As babies we soaked up a glorious kaleidoscope of sensations. Then we began to learn words, symbolic representations for objects, people, nature, our needs, and feelings. We focused on what we could say, which was reinforced with glee by our caregivers.…