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September 5, 2015
Traitor to My Race: The Abolition of White Privilege -- a Series in Three Parts
By Jack Carney
This series is comprised of three articles which trace the origins of white supremacy and white privilege, their evolution since the American Revolution, and the lifelong personal transformation of the author into an opponent of white supremacy and privilege and an advocate for their abolition. The latter is advanced throughout the series as a fraught proposition since abolition involves the disavowal by white Americans of a belief in white supre ...
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Brief Bio.: Dr. Carney is a retired social worker with nearly 50 years of experience in social work, with thirty-five of those years spent in the public mental health system . He is an Alinsky-trained community organizer, Institute-trained in Bowen Family Systems theory, and trained in Linehan's Dialectical Behavior Therapy. He received his MSW from UCLA in 1969 and his DSW from CUNY in 1991. He currently lives in the Adirondacks in northern NY State with his wife4 and their two cats and is actively involved in promoting passage of the NY Health Act, NY's single-payer healthcare bill.