Race
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Where’s Hagar?
Can I be honest here? I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with the Bible. On the one hand, it is full of hope, salvation and the love of God. In its pages I find strength and the courage… Continue reading
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How Our Theology Keeps Us Racist
How could it be possible for a group of Christians to think twice about collectively condemning white supremacy? Many were asking this question last month as we watched the drama of the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention unfold… Continue reading
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Let’s get strategic: White women in resistance to the Trump cultural-political machine
I’m going to go ahead and assume that everyone reading this knows that white women have a historical tendency to live and act in racist ways. It was true when the suffragettes intentionally excluded black women in order to appear… Continue reading
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Healing and Reconciliation: the hope after injustice
WIT is happy to publish another guest post from Nancy Blackman. You can read her first post for WIT here. She describes herself in the following way: “I love all things food like a female version of Anthony Bourdain. I… Continue reading
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How Much are You Willing to Sacrifice? Confessions of a Biracial Female
WIT is happy to publish a guest post from Nancy Blackman. She describes herself in the following way: “I love all things food like a female version of Anthony Bourdain. I am drawn to small gatherings with meaningful conversation and have… Continue reading
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Blackness and Value; Part 2: On Whiteness as Credit
“The credit economy is a network of contracted servitude. … Whenever one spends money, one spends a portion of the substance, wealth and life of those who have undertaken loans. Yet the value of money is also backed by profitability,… Continue reading
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Dear White People and Black Liberal Aspirations
*Spoilers Below Justin Simien’s film Dear White People, is a smart, funny, satire (with a handful of surprising twists along the way) that complicates black twenty-somethings’ negotiation of blackness at a predominately white institution of higher education. Aesthetically the film… Continue reading
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Whiteness and Inheritance: A Humble Proposal
I don’t much like the term “white privilege.” Mainly the term strikes me as an interpersonal framework that gets substituted on when talking about structural oppression. It also carries an assumption of being necessarily a positive or beneficial thing to the… Continue reading
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Some Thoughts on Snowpiercer
*Spoilers all throughout this piece. The train is a lie. It seems likely that it’s conditions for possibility are based on a lie (in my view it seems likely that Wilford manufactured the climate crisis himself or with others in… Continue reading