Sally Kohn: What drives my southern friends nuts about white Northerners is not the references to southern guilt per se. She says it's the implied Yankee innocence and the presumption that Northerners are in a position to educate the clueless racist southerner. Kohn: Tomorrow is Super Bowl 51, and it's the New England Patriots versus the Atlanta Falcons.
When it comes to America’s racial sins, past and present, a lot of us see people in one region of the country as guiltier than the rest. Host John Biewen spoke with some white Southern friends about that tendency. Part Six of our ongoing series, Seeing White. With recurring guest, Chenjerai Kumanyika.
Image: A lynching on Clarkson Street, New York City, during the Draft Riots of 1863. Credit: Greenwich Village Society of Historical Preservation.
Shannon Sullivan’s books, Revealing Whiteness and Good White People.
Thanks to Chris Julin, whose 1991 NPR report on the Wisconsin fishing rights dispute we featured.