Category: Privilege

9-1-1 is not a joke: The Lesson Amy Cooper learned

.Reading time 4 minutes.

“I’m sorry.  I’m in the Ramble and there is a man, African American. He has a bicycle helmet; he is recording me and threatening me and my dog. … There is an African American man.  I am in Central Park.  He is recording me and threatening myself and my dog. … I’m sorry.  I can’t […]

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To be fair: On Trump’s pardons and protecting whiteness

.Reading time 9 minutes.

From crowd size to the coronavirus (also known as COVID19), this administration has not told the truth.  Some say we are now post- truth . But I cannot get past the truth that there are those who are buying whatever President Trump is selling— no matter the cost.  This is what happens when you hire […]

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Doing justice to our bodies: How race wrongs us (Part Two)

.Reading time 12 minutes.

With an increase in the surveillance of bodies socially colored black, I feel it necessary to talk about the valuation of the human body and the Church’s role in such a conversation.  With some persons feeling it necessary to call the police as if a customer service agency for humans they deem damaged due the social construct of […]

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America First and the last time we heard it

.Reading time 3 minutes.

America first.  For some, this slogan sounds like we are getting our priorities together.  We need to focus on our economy and give jobs to real Americans– as if the persons who are employed at these businesses are not real people with real needs.   Still, we need to take from them in order give it to us.  […]

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Where Injustice Lies

.Reading time 7 minutes.

“(Justice) cries out in the streets; in the squares she raises her voice.  At the busiest corner, she cries out; at the entrance of the city gate she speaks: ‘How long, O (crooked ones will you love being crooked)?’”[1] No matter where we are or where we find ourselves, there are cries for justice.  The […]

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