The pop-quiz is comprised of questions that help set a context for discussing this thing called White privilege and serves to help people understand what it means to possess it. The quiz is meant to dispel any mystery or skepticism about the existence of privilege for those who have never given it much, if any, thought. After all, the number one privilege of whiteness is to not have to think about it, therein denying its existence.
Each chapter begins with a multiple-choice question meant to reveal, inform and inspire more questions about whiteness and the system invented to promote whiteness than you have ever entertained before. The hope is that perhaps the quiz will point you in a new direction ---to think more deeply and behave more consciously.
filmmaker. speaker. writer.
Writing
Molly can’t recall when the writing started. Only that writing saved her sanity numerous times before age 15. In 1986, after seeing Reds, by Warren Beatty, she wrote her first political letter requesting chemical companies re-evaluate paint ingredients to save the environment. Writing corporate letters led to op-ed pieces about the death penalty, suicide and racism. Op-ed letters led to guest editorials about juvenile justice and public transportation. Essays led to journal contributions about disenfranchised youth in juvenile justice. Journals led to national columns and chapters in books about Reparations for the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.
For Molly, writing is action.
Huffington Post:
Nashville: Not just Flooded with Water; But Civil Rights Memories
Nashville Youth take to the strees for Historic MLK March
When a Bad White People Day is Just Another Tuesday
Grief Beneath The Grievance: Politics, Cancer and the Night Before Chemo
White Washing & Dressing Up History
Horsing Around with Gangs: Horse Whisperer Meets Gang Advocate
Think Public Transportation Isn’t a Social Justice Issue? Think Again.
Doug Jones + NAACP = 100 Black Women
Getting Lost in the Neighborhood of Race
Why is your Name on this Bill? Open Letter to Lindsey Graham.
Disposable Children: Nashville Teen Faces Life In Prison
Fear and Loathing in Tennessee
Huffington Post author page: https://www.huffpost.com/author/molly-secours
Nashville Arts Magazine
“Under the Radar” a column by Molly Secours:
Louisville Education Journal:
Minority and Disenfranchised Youth in Juvenile Justice
Nashville Scene
“Vodka Yonic” by Molly Secours:
Words like ‘winner’ and ‘loser are inadequate to the experience of cancer
Why is Beth Harwell so against alleviating the suffering of sick people?
Znet Magazine:
Here Comes The Neighborhood: Anytown USA
Where are the Voices of Reason and Dissent?
Minimum Wage Yields Minimum Coverage: Connecting The Election Dots
Gay Marriages: Weddings of Mass Destruction?
Car Shopping, Horse-trading and White House Hustling
Easy To Kill Those Who are “Not One of Us”
Angry White Men and the Affirmative Action Debate
Tennessean:
By Tim Wise & Molly Secours: Is Personal Responsibility a One-Way Street
The Black Commentator:
Let’s Just Get Over It—Being Racist That is… Part 1
Let’s Just Get Over It—… Diagnosing Whiteness: Part 2
Let’s Just Get Over It—Oops We did it Again. Part 3
Let’s Just Get Over It—Defining Racism & Explaining it away Part 4