Leonard Pitts Jr. says ponder the 40 minutes police spent sorting things out with a white man and the two seconds it took to shoot a black boy. What follows is for the benefit of one William James ...

I am among the most privileged people on the planet: a well-educated, healthy, tall, white, heterosexual male. I am not sure which of those adjectives provide me with more privilege than the others ...

Wanda Sykes told a story about walking with a white friend on a hot day and slipping into a corner store for a couple of bottles of cold water. The friend opened her bottle and started drinking it on ...

In her Emily Litella guise, Gilda Radner often posed the question, “What’s all this fuss I hear about …?” From one “Saturday Night Live” week to the next, it would be one thing and then another. In ...

What follows is for the benefit of one William James O’Reilly Jr. — “Bill” to his fans. Last summer, Mr. O’Reilly, a pundit for Fox “News,” spent time talking about white privilege and his contention ...