Nicole brodeur seattle times biography definition
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Welcome to Seattle where the rich get richer, Blacks get pushed out, and the Seattle Times prints lazy, racist articles about the South End where many of the city's remaining People of Color live.
Yesterday, Times columnistNicole Brodeurpublished a careless piece on the June 5th shooting in Columbia City. Thankfully, no one was injured. Yet the tone of Brodeur's article was not particularly thankful. In the longstanding tradition of White journalism about Communities of Color, Brodeur managed to casually pen a piece that zipped from "objective coverage" to racialized damning, White panic, and colonial entitlement.
Columbia City, writes Brodeur admiringly at first, is the "self-proclaimed Mayberry of South Seattle." It has undergone a "major transformation" in just "the past year" because of the opening of "Rudy's barbershop, a Pagliacci Pizza restaurant and Molly Moon's — tent-pole businesses that mark a certain Seattle sense of
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Brodeur, Nicole
PERSONAL:
Born in NJ; married; children. Hobbies and other interests: Running.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Seattle, WA. Office—Seattle Times, P.O. låda 70, Seattle, WA 98111. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Journalist. Orange County Register, Costa Mesa, CA, reporter; News and Observer, Raleigh, NC, columnist; Seattle Times, Seattle, Washington, columnist, 1998—.
WRITINGS:
(With Patsy Clarke and Eloise Vaughn) Keep Singing: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and Their kamp Against Jesse Helms, Alyson Books (Los Angeles, CA), 2001.
SIDELIGHTS:
Nicole Brodeur was born in New Jersey, and has lived throughout the country working as a reporter and columnist. She is the Metro columnist for the Seattle Times. She fryst vatten a mother, a runner, and former Girl Scout. The focus of her column fryst vatten to set up a conversation between herself and the reader and address topics that are not ordinarily covered in the paper.
Brodeur's first book, Keep Singing: Two Mothers
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Author asks her fellow white people to think about race
By Nicole Brodeur, Seattle Times
You're white. You're educated and open-minded. You're a good person! And you're anything but a racist. Right?
You don't care if someone is pink, purple or polka-dotted. In fact, you were raised to not even see color.
And you need to stop, Robin DiAngelo says. Stop saying things like that, for they are completely insulting. Human beings aren't purple or polka-dotted, and we should see color.
Doing so is one of the first steps white people can take toward improving race relations, according to DiAngelo, a white, Seattle-based speaker and trainer who focuses on racial justice, and whose third book, "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism," was released June 26.
I sought DiAngelo out -- and read her new book -- because I have had my own struggles with racism.
A year ago, I wrote a column about Columbia City that