#BuildingaNewWay – Kari Kopnick

Fighting About the Bleeding

I admit it. Black Lives Matter was a hard sell for me. The lives I love the most in this world are the lives of my kids and my husband. Those are Asian lives. Watching pop culture racist jokes hurled by Black celebrities at Asian people just made me angrier. Chris Rock can go suck anContinue reading “Fighting About the Bleeding”

Never, Ever, Ever, Ever, Never Read the Comments

I read the comments. I know I’m not supposed to. I know that proper mental health hygiene calls for never reading the comments. I think this advice applies to not only press articles online but also on the “stand up and have your say” commentary that people post these days on social media. Because ofContinue reading “Never, Ever, Ever, Ever, Never Read the Comments”

Oh, no. Hate Mail.

I got my first hate mail today. It’s 2017 so it was hate email. And it was really only a little hate-y. It’s not bothering me. I have been taught that the discomfort that I feel as a White person when I am confronted with the hard truth about the prizes and kickbacks I get in this worldContinue reading “Oh, no. Hate Mail.”

Doing it Wrong

So how do I, a White person, work on fighting white supremacy without, you know, trying to smear my white privilege all over and muck it up? I get a little frozen here, sometimes. OK, all the time. Because I don’t want to do it wrong. I don’t want to do something to make more trouble,Continue reading “Doing it Wrong”

So, tell me about your hair?

I was a late bloomer, as in I think I bloomed underground and then had to fight my goofy, wrecked up daisy head out of the dirt to see the sun. I didn’t finish my BA until one day before my oldest son graduated with an engineering degree. It meant a cobbling together of credits from allContinue reading “So, tell me about your hair?”