I was still half-asleep, and fully-cursing the rising sun when national headlines of Homewood Flossmoor High School students in blackface came across my screen.
I wish I could say that the news of suburban white boys painting their faces black left me anything more than disappointed.
I wish I could say that I sat straight up in bed, my body assuming the 90-degree angle reserved for the most unsettling and egregious news.
In truth, my…
