2021
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The pulp of today’s article surrounds a small but resilient group of people who I will call willful amnesiacs by benefit.
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I have now come to accept that capital punishment is no longer a necessary nor logical form of punishment.
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The danger here is that we are only satisfied when things are done or satisfied for only a short time with a finished product.
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Thank you for taking the time to follow this nascent blog and for reading through some of what is published here.
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White supremacy will use all means possible and available to save itself from public scrutiny.
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Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
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Some men and these are the veteran warriors I speak of, use this technique twice a week just to avoid an argument.
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I will add that racism is a feature, not a bug, of the United States of America.
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We’re here to restore people to fellowship, not power, remember that.
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Welp, that’s five years in Canada for us. Let’s see what happens in the next five!
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“It’s so nice to finally have some color in this church. We’re happy to have you here.”
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Distrust of higher education has been an enduring feature of fundamentalism and evangelicalism.
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Where can a racist person live out their racist sentiments without the fear of public reprisal and invective?
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One cannot help but wonder… what if Nat Turner had succeeded?
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And this is where I run into this new conundrum of historical presentism.
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I don’t mean to sound racist but…
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I’m only 28 pages into The Confessions of Nat Turner and my emotions are everywhere.
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How can we preach a message we have not believed?
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I made a list of the the voices that dominate my headspace. Voices that have influenced me over time.
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Do you have friends you can rely on? Are they readily available to take your call? Do they respond to a text within the hour? Discard them.
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Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy.
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Whiteness is not a deformation of thought, but a kind of thought itself.
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We become enslaved by the doing of things for God to receive things from God. Christ has delivered us from these ascetic tendencies because they serve no purpose.
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New Review Up & Running!
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The action of making amends for a wrong one has done, by providing payment or other assistance to those who have been wronged.
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I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house.
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My reading list for 2021 is daunting and hopeless but that’s the fate of anyone who dares to read and read at length about history.
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Its only solution to our national problems is to ‘make the nation Christian again.’ But that is precisely what caused our problems in the first place.
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I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. – Abraham Lincoln
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I’m stuck in between numbness and rage in the face of continual abuse of power, denial of trauma and racism, denial of the legacy of racism and trauma, denial of abuse all around.
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I am content with this verdict. I am also distraught by how many other officers have escaped justice over the years.
