Tag Archives: American Legacy

Race Riots: An American Heritage – Part I

Race riots are innate to the American experience. 

Book Review: After Evangelicalism

Distrust of higher education has been an enduring feature of fundamentalism and evangelicalism.

Review: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

One cannot help but wonder… what if Nat Turner had succeeded?

My Struggle with Historical Presentism

And this is where I run into this new conundrum of historical presentism. 

‘The Confessions of Nat Turner’ by William Styron

I’m only 28 pages into The Confessions of Nat Turner and my emotions are everywhere.

Racial Catalog and Inventory: The Voices That Dominate Our Headspace

I made a list of the the voices that dominate my headspace. Voices that have influenced me over time.

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.

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

An Elegy: A Black Uprising Is Retaliatory, Not Instigative In Nature 

We are the blemish on their rise to power and the agency through which they will wash their hearts white.

unAmerican: The Day I Was Forced To Face The American Flag

Long Story Short I couldn’t help but relive an interesting memory of mine, one of absolute horror now that I look back at it, say, should it happen to my children. Now, for context, you must understand that this incident took place after a high school football game between Lely High School’s Trojans, my team,Continue reading “unAmerican: The Day I Was Forced To Face The American Flag”