Waking Up White Chapter 1: What Wasn’t Said

stephen matlock
9 min readJan 27, 2019
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I’m reading and blogging about Debby Irving’s book Waking Up White.

This first chapter opens with a provocative quote by the author:

“‘WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ALL THE INDIANS?’ I asked my mother on a Friday morning ride home from the library.”

Gotta tell you, this not a question I had growing up in the 50s in the middle-class white suburbs…

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stephen matlock

Writer; observer; sometimes doer. Fiat justitia ruat cælum. More at stephenmatlock.com Mostly off Medium now & writing elsewhere