It is February 28 and we are at the end of Black History Month. Tomorrow, we return to the ouroboros of white history and I would advise my friends and acquaintances to be cognizant of that much. Eleven months out of the year is what we spend celebrating the inconspicuous and ubiquitous nature of whitenessContinue reading “Black History Month Closing Statement”
Tag Archives: American History
Demagogic Nature
We must take note of America’s unique ability to develop populist demagogues.
“I Don’t See Color.”
Oh yes, you do. Just open your eyes.
Know Thy Family History
We are the chronicle and choices of our predecessors.
Richard Poplar: A Black Confederate ‘Soldier’ & Other Lies
White supremacy will use all means possible and available to save itself from public scrutiny.
Reparations Revisited: The Case of Japanese Americans vs African Americans
I will add that racism is a feature, not a bug, of the United States of America.
One Year of Blogging in the Books!
I launched this blog one year ago today.
Love Your Neighbor: Afghanistan
Love your neighbor.
Book Review: After Evangelicalism
Distrust of higher education has been an enduring feature of fundamentalism and evangelicalism.
Of Christians, Pandemics, and Pro-Life Hypocrisy
Bear one another’s burdens.
When and where is racism ever acceptable?
Where can a racist person live out their racist sentiments without the fear of public reprisal and invective?
Christ in Alabama by Langston Hughes
Christ is a nigger.
Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung and Other Things
Working off the past.
New Book Review: Life of a Klansman
Whiteness is not a deformation of thought, but a kind of thought itself.
New Book Review: Reparations – A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair
New Review Up & Running!
Reparations: A Discussion Revisited
The action of making amends for a wrong one has done, by providing payment or other assistance to those who have been wronged.
Jourdon Anderson & The Funniest Letter of the 19th Century
I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house.
My 2021 List of Non-Fiction Books
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.
Unsettling Truths
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.
Abraham Lincoln and the Narrative of White Messiahship
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
New Book Review: The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
New Review Up & Running!