The ruminations of an ex- colored woman
Division is not unusual for Americans; we have always been united in name only. In 1968, this was certainly true. No surprise there. A 2016 Center for Public Opinion Research article looked back at 1968 and specifically the Chicago Democratic convention when Democrats had a three-way split over who would become their nominee. This convention […]
Read More“Why is it that Christianity seems impotent to deal radically, and therefore effectively, with the issues of discrimination and injustice on the basis of race, religion and national origin?” | Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited “The white man’s foot is on my neck.” I heard this expression as a child. It was used to […]
Read MoreJustice isn’t blind; the justice system willingly turns a blind eye. Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed in Brunswick, Georgia, on February 23, but Tom Durden, the district attorney didn’t request a formal investigation until May 5. On May 6, the Kingsland Office began the investigation, and Arbery’s killers, the father and son, Gregory and […]
Read More“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness— on them light has shined.” | Isaiah 9.2, NRSV Today, I am groping and groaning under the weight of hate. I grit my teeth. My bones ache. I rock and shake in the valley of […]
Read MoreOn this day in 1955, a fourteen year old African American boy named Emmett Till from Chicago, Illinois was killed in Money, Mississippi. I know his story by heart; it was the first one I learned on domestic terrorism and mob lynching when I began my personal study of African American history. He went […]
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