A Luta Continua: Refounding a nation Kristian Davis Bailey February 17, 2013 6 Comments As it stands, our veneration of the founding figures, documents, institutions, and values as holy blinds us to the structural injustice all around us. Read More »
Slavery and apartheid by another name Kristian Davis Bailey February 6, 2013 2 Comments Why do institutions that enabled structural inequality under slavery, apartheid or Jim Crow remain unchanged after such systems become illegal? How can we expect to eradicate structural inequality... Read More »
Overcoming the racist state Kristian Davis Bailey January 28, 2013 21 Comments Why don’t we judge learners not by the tests they were set up to fail, nor the university attainment they were intended never to achieve, but by something else? Read More »
Notes from the Motherland: Kristian in Cape Town Kristian Davis Bailey January 20, 2013 2 Comments My first two weeks in Cape Town have presented me with a series of messy tensions that I’ll have to navigate over the next few weeks and months. Read More »
Time’s a wastin’, ‘Mr. Bailey!’ Kristian Davis Bailey December 5, 2012 3 Comments Recognizing that not everyone has agreed with me or liked me during this time, I will say that getting people to do so is no longer a goal of mine. What I hope I’ve done over the past 10 weeks is to... Read More »
Why I care about Israel’s occupation of Palestine Kristian Davis Bailey November 26, 2012 71 Comments At stake in the multibillion-dollar American-Israeli occupation of Palestine are contemporary issues that I and many other Stanford students care about, including the increase of racial profiling,... Read More »
Stanford, we are complicit in Gaza violence Kristian Davis Bailey November 14, 2012 173 Comments Stanford University, the American media and the United States government are all complicit in the atrocities that have developed in the Gaza Strip over the past few days. Read More »
Nu-Progressivism in the Age of Nu-Obama Kristian Davis Bailey November 11, 2012 5 Comments Barack Obama’s reelection is not a political end - nor does it guarantee the beginning of a future that values human rights and social justice. Read More »
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