Selah

Diversity training won’t fix this.  Carefully crafted apologies are absurd.  Protests and candle light vigils miss the point and the greater need.  I don’t want to hold hands and sing of what will be.  I don’t want to reenact it, create a choreography that walks in his footsteps. And justice is not the word.  I’ll […]

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The Salvation of Whiteness: “If my son were white”

The mothers of four African American unarmed children and men killed by police officers or those aspiring to be one came together to talk with Anderson Cooper on CNN.  It’s the first time the women have been in the same room though all of them are suffering from a similar loss, that of a child, […]

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When the law is not on your side

While I support the law and its enforcement, I do not believe that police officers are above it.  This video of Mr. Levar Jones being shot in the hip by South Carolina state trooper Sean Groubert is beyond disturbing and something deeper is troubling me.  It keeps happening. Sure, there are those who will say that it […]

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Ferguson: An Unnecessary Repetition

I have heard persons say that we have seen this before, that we have heard these police accounts and witness statements before, that we have heard the President, politicians and news personalities make these same arguments before. Again.  It is a troubling word when used in sentences involving the untimely death of a teenager.  An […]

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