Current Author: Mark Korber

Thoughts about the strength, vitality and growth of our community.

WHAT CAN I DO?

In response to my essay last week, Lew asked how he, a retired white guy with minimal contact with Black people, can help promote racial justice. ...
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THE SHOWSTOPPER

As I’ve said before, I’ve become convinced that America’s problems around the issue of race must be solved by white people, because white people have the ...
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THE APPRAISAL

It is time again for that occasional modern American ritual, the mortgage refinance. Interest rates seem to have plateaued, and the spread between available rates and ...
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MIXER

It was 1965, and I was a freshman at Wesleyan. In those days, the freshmen (all men) were housed in the dormitories on Foss Hill. Twenty-two ...
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CASTE, AND UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS

The hot new book on the anti-racism scene is Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson. Ms. Wilkerson is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and National ...
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THE CANS

Part 1 The redeemable cans and bottles were piling up. When our son lived with us, it was his job to take them to Stop & ...
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THUMBS UP

I took off on my customary three-mile walk on Saturday morning. I was in shorts, a tee shirt, walking shoes and my fabulous American flag sun-hat ...
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OPENING DAY

Baseball was big when I was a kid, at least in our house. Mom rooted for the Dodgers, because she liked underdogs, hated the establishment, and ...
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PAUL’S STORY

My good friend and former partner, Paul McCary, reacted to some of my stories about my childhood by writing about his life as a child in ...
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CAPE WHITE

We took a few days of vacation on Cape Cod last week. It was cloudy and cool, so we traded sitting around our house for sitting ...
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