Every time there is an event like that of the shooting to death of the 18-year old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the white liberal heart starts to bleed, the mea culpas, some blunt and others heavily nuanced, start to seep into the media.
Here is writer Tobias Wolff's in the New Yorker, cleverly titled, Heart of Whiteness (to evoke the most trenchant of all critiques of colonialism and Europe's racism, The Heart of Darkness).
Remembering Michael Chabon's mea culpa piece in the NYTimes magazine not too long ago. All of the testimonials of racist complicity in the world can't get the "damned spot" (reverberation of Lady Macbeth shriek of her own guilt) of real, brutal racism and classism out from the fabric of contemporary America.
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