by Rich Wandschneider | May 2, 2018 | American Indians, Anglo-American, DNA, Germans, Manifest Destiny, Scandinavians, whiteness
Viking TravelsA few years ago my sister had a DNA profile done. To her surprise, the family stories, passed down from Minnesota Germans and Norwegians, that said our mother’s people were pure Scandinavian and dad’s side was all German, turned out to be more...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 5, 2018 | April 1968, King assassination, national guard, Washington D. C. riots, White privilege, whiteness
Washington D.C. April, 1968Fifty years ago this week I was living in Washington D. C., near DuPont Circle on New Hampshire Avenue. I worked at the Peace Corps office, which was across Lafayette Square from the White House. It was less than a mile walk on Connecticut...