I remember talking with an older white man in front of Homewood village hall about five years ago. He had just tried to persuade Mayor Rich Hofeld to include in the village 4th of July festivities a reading of Frederick Douglass’s famous 1852 speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” (The Chronicle posted video that year of local actors reading excerpts.)
“We have got to give up our white privilege,” he…
