Mormon Apologist Uses Photo of The Dead Bodies of Lynched Blacks As A Gag Prop [Updated With Screencaps of Scrubbed Images and Comments]

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A Mormon Professor who was rightly angry about slanders against his church resorted to an appallingly callous and implicitly racist means of sardonically satirizing the rumormongers.

Disowned Over An Interracial Relationship In 2012

Ashley Miller tells the heartbreaking story of how her father decided to disown her for dating a black man this past Thanksgiving.

“Have You Ever Thought About The OTHER Side?”

Evangelical Christianity had a powerful grip on my mind from the time I was 5 years old until well after my deconversion at 22. My Christian faith profoundly shaped my views, practices, and very identity in such incalculable ways that even years after leaving the faith and reconstructing my identity in a thoroughly irreligious way, my [...]

Talking About Talking About Race With Ian Cromwell

Earlier this week, Ian and I decided to experiment with our new toy, Google Hangout, and conduct a follow up interview to our written one from last week. The first video cuts out at around 10:25 and is mostly just an “off-air” signal because I lost my internet connection and Google Hangout kept recording. So, [...]

We Have Lost Rodney King

I found Rodney King to be very thoughtful in interviews in recent months. It is very sad to learn of his unexpected, untimely, apparently accidental drowning death. Your Thoughts?

On Religions, Relativisms, and Races. An Interview With Greg Laden

The interview below was done as part of a blogathon to support the Secular Student Alliance. Please donate to this worthy organization! And see more links to the many diverse conversations from the blogathon, updated throughout the day, at the blogathon conversation table of contents. Daniel Fincke: I’d like to start by asking you what you [...]

How To Talk About Racism. An Interview With Ian Cromwell of The Crommunist Manifesto

(The Captain Canada t-Shirt pictured above can be purchased here.) Ian “Crommunist” Cromwell is a scientist, musician, skeptic, and long-time observer of race and race issues. His interests, at least blog-wise, focus on bringing anti-racism into the fold of skeptic thought, and promoting critical thinking about even those topics that make us uncomfortable. More about Crommunist [...]

The Racial Coding In The Latest Muppet Movie

As I’ve gushingly written before, I loved the new muppet movie. But in my initial review I was remiss in not mentioning that there was one glaringly troubling aspect of the film that nagged me when I first saw it and has bothered me more each time I’ve watched the film since. The problem is [...]

Had Trayvon Martin Been White…

Mediaite says it all: The most glaring figure comes from a USA Today/Gallup poll in which people were asked “Would George Zimmerman have been arrested if the person he shot was white, or do you think (Trayvon) Martin’s race did not make a difference?” While 73% of black people said Zimmerman would have been arrested had his victim been [...]

John Derbyshire's Racist "Talk" He Says He Gives His Children

In the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, there has been some talk about “The Talk” that black parents feel the need to give their kids so that they can survive a racist society. John Derbyshire, a regular contributor to National Review until now, wrote a piece about the talk that he allegedly has given his kids, in [...]