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Barry Hannah used to say it was the glaring juxtapositions of the South that made it such fertile soil for writers. The rich. The poor. The black. The white. I think about what Barry said all the time. Juxtapositions abound. That has never been more obvious to me than as someone who teaches First [...]
It’s ludicrous, really, the way some Believers carry on in this nation about being persecuted. You know the type. They can be heard most often on talk radio or some cable television channel whining about how their religious freedoms are being infringed upon.They yammer incessantly about their First Amendment Rights and how the world [...]
We talked about the C-word in class last week. It was part of a broader discussion about offensive words and how the majority of the name-calling we do in this culture is gender-specific, designed to denigrate women. And isn’t that in itself a form of hate speech? The C-word ranks as one of the most degrading of [...]
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