What Can a White Person Do?
Category: POLITICS
Ferguson, Missouri is about a four-hour drive east from where I live in Lawrence, Kansas, yet it seems a world apart. Like much of America, it might be easy to think Ferguson is someplace else, part of another, more broken country. That's the thing about privilege: it's invisible.
By Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, ContributorKansas Poet Laureate (2009-13); author or editor of 19 books; ..., 2014-12-01