Robert Jensen

“Crash” is a white-supremacist movie. The Oscar-winning best picture – widely heralded, especially by white liberals, for advancing an honest discussion of race in the United States – is, in fact, a setback in the crucial project of forcing white America to come to terms with the reality of race and racism, white supremacy and…

One often hears that that we can’t judge people of another era by the standards of our time. This is often asserted when one looks back in U.S. history to evaluate the actions of our founding fathers, for example. When one critiques people such as Thomas Jefferson, not only for owning slaves but for expressing…