Gabrielle Christina Victoria “Gabby” Douglas is one of this year’s Olympic darlings. As a member of the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics team, Gabby is the first African American gymnast and woman of color, in Olympic history, to win gold medals in the individual all-around and team competitions at the same Olympics. When she won the gold [...]

Poor Gabby Douglas. She is rightfully celebrating the fact that she set a historical precedent of Olympic athletic achievement as a woman of color — the first black woman to take the all-around individual title in gymnastics. But in the wake of her win, she is mocked by members of her own community on social [...]

I have yet to have a dialog on race where both the person of the minority group in question and someone from the dominant (white) culture really want to engage with the defenses down. Acknowledging privilege doesn’t have to be an exercise in guilt-tripping by the minority group, nor is it some catastrophe to say [...]