white supremacy
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“Ethnic” Hymns in White Churches Take Two
I want to follow-up on Sonja’s excellent and thought-provoking discussion of the singing of “ethnic” hymns in white churches by adding a few thoughts of my own. Before answering the question of whether predominantly white Christian communities should sing Negro… Continue reading
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What the War on Drugs and the War on Terror Have In Common
What does it say about us as a nation when even the killing of sleeping children is incapable of making us change our course? As Amy Davidson of the New Yorker reports, U.S. led NATO forces have killed four Afghan… Continue reading
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Does God Bless the USA?
United Statesians have always claimed to live in a nation blessed by God–white Americans interpreted the near complete destruction of certain Native American communities by smallpox as a sign of God’s blessing, believing that God had cleared the land of… Continue reading
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The Cross and the Lynching Tree
In this 2007 interview with PBS’ Bill Moyers, James Cone argues that the lynching of African-Americans throughout the 19th and 20th centuries was an almost literal crucifixion because “the cross was a first century lynching.” Lynching, like the crucifixion, was a… Continue reading
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The 43rd Anniversary of MLK, Jr.’s Assassination
“Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his native place.” Luke 4:28 It is easy to forget that, at the time of his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. was not a beloved figure. He was considered a… Continue reading
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Demonizing African-American Mothers; Preserving White Space
On Tuesday in an Ohio courtroom, Kelly Williams-Bolar, a mother of two with no criminal record, was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on 3 years probation for sending her children to school in a school district in… Continue reading
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Breast Cancer and Structural Racism
As Dr. David Ansell of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago explains, black women are significantly more likely than white women to die from breast cancer. The gap is so dramatic that in Chicago, every year, “3,200 black people die… Continue reading
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Will We Be Extremists for Hate or for Love?
“I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that… Continue reading