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"Meanwhile, racism, elegant, lovely, monstrous, carries on." -Ta-Nehisi Coates
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<span>By Alex Mikulich, Ph.D.</span></h2>
<p>"Meanwhile, racism, elegant, lovely, monstrous, carries on." So concludes <em>The Atlantic</em> essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates in his incisive analysis of overt racism by the rancher Cliven Bundy and the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, Donald Sterling.[1]</p>
<p>The deeper problem concerns what the heralded Canadian Jesuit theologian Bernard Lonergan describes as cultural bias. Lonergan asks: "How, indeed, is the mind to become conscious of its own bias when that bias springs from a communal flight from understanding and is supported by the whole texture of civilization?" <a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/sites/loyno.edu.jsri/files/The%20Monstrous%20Elegance%20of%20White%20Supremacy_0.pdf">MORE>></a></p>
<span>By Alex Mikulich, Ph.D.</span></h2>
<p>"Meanwhile, racism, elegant, lovely, monstrous, carries on." So concludes <em>The Atlantic</em> essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates in his incisive analysis of overt racism by the rancher Cliven Bundy and the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, Donald Sterling.[1]</p>
<p>The deeper problem concerns what the heralded Canadian Jesuit theologian Bernard Lonergan describes as cultural bias. Lonergan asks: "How, indeed, is the mind to become conscious of its own bias when that bias springs from a communal flight from understanding and is supported by the whole texture of civilization?" <a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/sites/loyno.edu.jsri/files/The%20Monstrous%20Elegance%20of%20White%20Supremacy_0.pdf">MORE>></a></p>