Kyle Watkins – Contemporary Racism

Lens of Awareness: Racism Outside of the Classroom

Kyle Watkins — Tue, 01 May 2018 11:31:10 +0000

Something that comes with education, of any kind, is the tendency to find ways to apply it and allow it to inform the way we now view the world. These new understandings and connections are the drive that makes us eternal students. What is complex, especially in the vital and often difficult path of education that unpacks and explains the functions of racism and oppression in a White Supremacist system, is allowing this to begin ...

An Open Letter to My “White” Black Friend

Kyle Watkins — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:24:38 +0000

It is very easy, I’ve found, to look out and look around and see behaviors and interactions that are silently swept into the cyclical system that White supremacy has made out of our country. It is valuable as it is easy to analyze and self-educate in response to these observations. A habit equally if not more valuable to the resistance to oppressive systems, however, is the ability to look inward to analyze and learn from ...

Dungeons and Dragons, Fantasy and Racial Homogenization

Kyle Watkins — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 18:56:44 +0000

With the 2016 release of the popular Netflix series, “Stranger Things,” the 1970’s role playing table top game known as “Dungeons and Dragons” has been making a comeback – entering into mainstream media in several facets from live streaming web-series to podcasts to TV shows. In a 2017 New Yorker article that describes this comeback, Neima Jahromi describes the time spent submerging into the fantasy make believe of Dungeons and Dragons as an “escape” from ...