By Amber Walker July 31, 2015 Amber Walker “Audre Lorde said, ‘Your silence will not protect you,’ but, for Black women, the price of speaking truth to power can be your life.” Throughout my life, my elders, teachers, peers and partners reiterated that I have “quite the mouth on me.” […]
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EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES
Are You Sure It’s Not 1955? Reflections on Emmett Till’s 74th Birthday
By Amber Walker July 24, 2015 Amber Walker I grew up on the Southside of Chicago, right off 71st Street. Taking the journey down this iconic city’s thoroughfare, I’d notice a brown street sign situated slightly below the one labeled “71st Street:” Emmett Till Road. As a youngster, I always wondered […]
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None But Jesus Heard Me: Justifying Victimhood and the Politics of Respectability
By Amber Walker July 10, 2015 Amber Walker “The subtext [of respectability politics] that exists is if this person had just been “good,” “deserving” or “respectable,” they would be worth our country’s collective sympathy and support.” Tulsa. Montgomery. Selma. Charleston. These cities, seared in our country’s collective consciousness, serve as […]
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“Somebody Almost Walked Off Wid Alla My Stuff”: Examining Rachel Dolezal in the Context of Allyship and White Privilege
By Amber Walker June 26, 2015 Amber Walker “She [Dolezal] believed that she could define what it means to be Black and, ironically, that mindset of ownership over someone else’s identity reinforces the system that she sought to dismantle.” Throughout our tumultuous experience in the United States, Black folks have […]