Some time ago, a Facebook friend shared a Baltimore Sun op-ed by Richard Rowe, “ A recommendation for Baltimore’s white liberal...

Bookmarks: DOJ organizes riots? • Russian rocket downed Malaysian airliner • The preschool-to-prison pipeline • Eat, Pray, Love? ————...

Three incidents from Sunday 09/18: (1) I caught the racial vibe as soon as she came in the room. (2) In the middle of worship, I looked...

Confronting the myth that “black culture” is responsible for violent crime in America Friday, September 2, 2016 On the one hand, I am...

Monday, September 5, 2016 There is a certain time in my daily prayer routine when I give attention to each of certain names that aren’t...

The whole hullaballoo about #microaggressions assumes that one can never heal from even the slightest insult. The same applies, frankly,...

I’m posting very little new material these days, but there are hundreds of posts different folks may not have seen the first time...

Bookmarks: F the System. • Section 8 discrimination ———— ♦ ———— Forget the System. The System ain’t gone do nothing for us . We’ve got...

Note that he found the backwoodsmen’s speech unintelligible. (Reblogged 02/22/24.) Ends and Beginnings I graduated from a college located...

Why America Stays Stuck In the future, I may ignore such expressions. For the record, someone’s actually said this in print. On a CNN...

Bookmarks: Overreaction • Guilty plea in riots arson • The verdicts don’t discredit the demonstrations. • ———— ♦ ———— Jesse Williams’...

At Messiah Truth , someone remarked: I think the whole issue of race is downright silly. My response: I think it’s a question of what...

This is a time for the white person to look the black person in the eye and know that she or he is hurting. This is a time for the black...

It’s happened often enough lately that I may as well tell it. When I go into the shower room at the shelter, often enough, unhappiness...

Bookmarks: The silent menace • Atrocity in Rio • A hidden epidemic ———— ♦ ———— Squirrels: America’s silent menace ———— ♦ ———— Atrocity...

Bookmarks: Rachelle Wood • Barry Bonds’ hypocrisy • Kimberly Leto sentence ———— ♦ ———— Rachelle Wood She has appeared in commercials...

Bookmarks: Biased headlines • Meechaiel Criner • The mysteries of attraction • Farrakhan’s racism • Court prohibits baby’s name ————...

Bookmarks: German Lopez on race • Kinky • Are people resilient, or not? • Terror in Sub-Saharan Africa ———— ♦ ———— After police shot a...

White Americans are nearly as blind to their racism as ever before An orthodoxy is a system of ideas that adherents insist one must...

When I hang out at Dunkin’ Donuts in the morning, I have a prescribed spot, in a corner, by the door. This morning this woman came in...