We're not in Kansas anymore: attending the Moving Social Justice conference

Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:14:00 -0700

Moving Social Justice organizer Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson.

“Here,” speaking as if she were one of the white men who are the public face of the New Atheism, “take this ‘We Are All Africans’ t-shirt and ticket to Darwin Day and sit down and shut the fuck up while we white atheists front like we’re Public Enemy Number One.” As Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson continued her opening remarks to the Moving Social Justice conference, I felt like somebody had just taken an industrial nail gun and nailed me to the back of my chair. I looked over at my fellow Sunday Assemblers, all white, middle-class, straight and mostly male, and thought, “Oh, Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”