As mainstream media withdrew from deep reporting, others stepped in Over the past 25 years, I've made many forays into what I call the Heart of Whiteness - meeting Klanspeople in a blizzard; interviewing Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio about his desire to start a border war with Mexico; and to a white church that threatened to disinter the body of a dead mixed-race infant. It was a double-dare I set myself: first, could I actually get the story; and second, could I do so with compassion?
Our discourse on race is becoming ever more polarised | Farai Chideya
The Guardian - 10 Jul 2016 01:03
As mainstream media withdrew from deep reporting, others stepped in Over the past 25 years, I've made many forays into what I call the Heart of Whiteness - meeting Klanspeople in a blizzard; interviewing Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio about his desire to start a border war with Mexico; and to a white church that threatened to disinter the body of a dead mixed-race infant. It was a double-dare I set myself: first, could I actually get the story; and second, could I do so with compassion?
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