Even when faced with something as starkly sinful as a Klan celebration, white Christian leaders can't bring themselves to speak clearly. Read more
Even when faced with something as starkly sinful as a Klan celebration, white Christian leaders can't bring themselves to speak clearly. Read more
We read the Ten Commandments as white Christians who were never "brought out of the land of Egypt" and we wonder where we fit into this story and into this commandment. Then we realize. Oh. Oh, no. Read more
To paraphrase 1 John, if you wish to know God, you would be wise never to set foot inside a white church. Attending such a church is very, very dangerous. It places your soul in eternal peril. Read more
These people are not "crazy," or stupid, or ignorant, or misinformed. The deficiency is moral. They're making a choice. And they're playing a game. Read more
If students are ordered back into classrooms in pandemic hot-spots, those students should go on strike. Could school children pull that off? I think so, because I still have the first Violent Femmes album. Read more
When some people speak of "the '60s," they mostly mean the "sexual revolution." And what they mean by that was that it was a Very Bad Thing. The Civil Rights Movement, they think, was PART of that Very Bad Thing. Read more
“I Believe I Can Fly” is a really good song. The lyrics may be a bit shallow, but their aspirational vagueness lets listeners take the general idea to heart in whatever way they need to. It’s also a singer’s song, and the singer who wrote it delivered it well, taking listeners on a ride in a soaring, gospel-tinged chorus. It was also a hugely successful song, both critically and commercially, becoming a No. 1 hit in eight countries, earning five... Read more
You probably don't hope that millions of your neighbors are secretly cannibalistic pedophiles who worship Satan. Because that would be bad. But some people really want that to be true. Read more
The real shame for the Buffalo PD here is that DeLong's creepy menacing and unprofessional thuggery overshadows the behavior of the other officers seen here in this citizen's video. Read more
Before we talk about masks and about the weird, religiously politicized toxic indignation that causes so many of our fellow citizens to refuse to wear them, we're going to have to talk about handicapped parking spaces. Read more