A recent Washington Post article titled “Why white people need to see the searing new African American Museum” featured the image of Mamie Till leaning over her fourteen year old son, Emmett Till’s casket. After he was kidnapped, tortured and brutally murdered during a visit with relatives who lived in the South, Till decided to have an […]
African and European Americans, those socially colored black and white, have different perspectives. That’s not the problem or even a problem. The problem comes in when race is included in the conversation. Because race says that only one side of the story is credible. Race says, “White is right.” There have been lots of conversations […]
So, it’s not a bedtime story and it’s not a new story, which causes me to believe that somewhere and for some people it is true. I don’t think that you should tuck yourselves in with it and it certainly doesn’t warrant that warm glass a milk. Frankly, I never really understood this request. Still, […]
President Barack Obama has called for “soul searching” but I wonder what are we in search of? What are we looking for that might challenge us to do what is right, just and fair in the eyes of the Law? What do we need that would allow us to look into the eyes of another […]
“Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, ‘In a certain city, there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city, there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my […]