Fundie Christians are an interesting bunch. On the one hand, they profess to love God “with all their heart,” and yet, on the other, they regularly send around unhinged e-mails about how God causes natural disasters or other tragedies as a way to punish the U.S. for abortion, or “taking prayer out of schools,” or [...]
“The price the white American paid for his ticket was to become white…This incredibly limited, not to say dimwitted ambition has choked many a human being to death here: and this, I contend, is because the white American has never accepted the real reasons for his journey. I know very well that my ancestors had [...]
Published on Civilrights.org, July 25, 2006 According to a poll taken late last year, the overwhelming majority of whites in the U.S. reject the idea that Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath tell us anything important about race in America (1). Blacks, not surprisingly, feel otherwise. Thus has emerged the latest manifestation of an intergenerational process: [...]
Published on Black Commentator.com, July 13, 2006 Dear Sheriff Strain, I always liked Slidell, even before Lucinda Williams sang about going there to “look for (her) joy.” And my fond feelings for the town were rekindled recently when I discovered that Grayson Capps–with whom I went to Tulane in the late ’80s, and who’s quite [...]
Published on The Black Commentator.com, July 6, 2006 Two pieces in my local paper today served as clear reminders of the adage that there is more than one side to every story. So too, they confirmed the wisdom–however much maligned it may be by some–that truth is often contingent upon one’s perspective, rather than being [...]
The city I called home for ten years is dying: a slow, agonizing, all-too-terribly public death, before the eyes of the nation and the world. It is dying, as are far too many of its people, because our national leaders only have the stomach, or the talent (or both) for killing, as in Iraq or [...]
Published as a ZNet Commentary, 4/19/05 Perhaps it would do us some good to put things in perspective. Although many a white conservative is seeking to make more of it than is justified, the recent “reverse discrimination” case arising from New Orleans — in which the city’s first black D.A., Eddie Jordan, apparently fired 53 [...]
