I haven’t written about the last ten days in Ferguson because I don’t know what I can say that hasn’t already been said. I’m heartbroken. How many more black people have to die before this country really, truly believes that black lives matter? Michael Brown mattered. Not because of what he might have become, but […]
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yoisthisracist: Michelle asked: The game = not racist. The statements on the game = collection of stupid things white racists say. This is depressingly accurate. I can check way too many of these off of the bingo card. Including the Emmett Till one. I’m sure I’d be able to check off the Medgar Evers and […]
Dear Evangelicals: This is why the rest of the world thinks you’re backward bigots (Or, did I just fall through a time warp to 1965?)
It’s 2013, the nation is on the verge of full marriage equality, possibly even as soon as this month, yet over on John Piper’s Desiring God blog, it seems that they’re still trying to convince readers that interracial marriage is not a sin. And not just in the abstract either, but because someone asked Piper […]
A concise history of black-white relations in the U.S.A. (don’t know the original source, stolen from a poster on Fark.com)