Saturday Link Love: Kanye, Alfie, and Ending Abusive Marriage

Saturday Link Love is a feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.

I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye, on The Atlantic—“West calls his struggle the right to be a ‘free thinker,’ and he is, indeed, championing a kind of freedom—a white freedom, freedom without consequence, freedom without criticism, freedom to be proud and ignorant; freedom to profit off a people in one moment and abandon them in the next; a Stand Your Ground freedom, freedom without responsibility, without hard memory; a Monticello without slavery, a Confederate freedom, the freedom of John C. Calhoun, not the freedom of Harriet Tubman, which calls you to risk your own; not the freedom of Nat Turner, which calls you to give even more, but a conqueror’s freedom….”

Why Alfie Evans Death Isn’t a Result of Socialized Medicine, on Skepchick—“When the doctors suggest they pull the plug and the parents want to continue, it’s up to the insurance company to decide if they will continue to provide coverage for the patient. In this case it’s not a doctor making the decision and then trained judges evaluating that decision—it’s a paper pusher at an HMO who gets to decide if the patient lives or dies.”

Ending an abusive marriage is hard. Ending one in the evangelical church is harder, in the Washington Post—“It didn’t matter what my husband had done to me, or that he wanted the divorce. I must have been at fault somehow.”

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