Recently I’ve had two personal experiences – one with my step daughter and the other with my daughter – that challenged me to reconsider my own ways of understanding and speaking that don’t measure up to the new requirements for anti-racist behavior and building an anti-racist world. These experiences remind me that younger generations bring to the plate new eyes, new sensibilities, and new understandings of racism that is on me (and older people) to soberly and self critically consider. I find it easier to do that if I think of myself as a work in progress and not too old a dog to learn anew.
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Sam Webb
I'm a long-time socialist and activist, but new to the blogging world. I hope to bring a different perspective on politics, sports, culture, and Marxism. Besides blogging, I also leave plenty of time for swimming, hiking, ESPN, music, reading, drinking good beer, and, not least, my family and friends. I wish I could play basketball, but my knees ruled out that possibility long ago.
While I currently reside in New York, my politically formative years were spent in Portland, Me. and Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s. I graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (where I played basketball) and received a MA in economics from the University of Connecticut.
I was the national chairperson of the Communist Party, USA from 2000 until 2014 when I stepped down at the convention. In 2016 I resigned from the Communist Party two years later. We were no longer on the same page.
