OSU Associate Professor José-Antonio Orosco has a new article on TruthOut’s website: Portland Photo Distracts From the Real Problems of Race. It’s a short, important piece about why individual acts of kindness and outreach, no matter how genuine, are not enough to solve the issues exemplified by the Ferguson and Staten Island killings of unarmed Black men at the hands of now acquitted police officers.  As Orosco states, “What we need – more than a few feel good moments – is a serious discussion about ongoing white supremacy amid fears of economic scarcity, the devaluation of nonwhite lives, especially those of young Black men, the increasing accumulation of firepower of the state for use against its own citizens, and a political sphere increasingly dominated by discussions about how to divest itself from programs of social opportunity.”