Racial microaggression is not a new term but has recently gained popularity as persons look for ways to discuss experiences of racism that are not overt or perhaps were unintended. While America is not a post- racial country, many of its citizens certainly have come a long way in their thinking. Or, have we? Have we merely […]
At a Tedx in Johannesburg, Gillian Schutte says that we need to talk about racism and she begins with her son. A powerful testimony and witness of confronting and challenging the construct of whiteness, the indoctrination of race and the development of empathy, I very much appreciate her work and would talk to her about […]
Author and journalist, Eric Deggans leads a discussion on race at a Ted talk in Bloomington and puts the social construct in its place. Well- informed and well- intentioned, he makes the uncomfortable conversation comfortable and invites us all to “jump in.”
Judgment. We just can’t seem to get it right. We forget who we are in the courtroom: all sinners, guilty as charged. We forget that Jesus defends us all, that Jesus is a friend of sinners, a friend to Officer Darren Wilson and the late Mr. Michael Brown, Jr. before and after they met each […]
Ferguson, Missouri has commanded the attention of many persons across the nation for months now. Police brutality, even suspected excessive force in cases involving European American police officers and African American suspects, is a sensitive issue in America for many reasons, some of which are founded; others of which are not. Many persons see this […]