[blockquote type=”left”]”When one member of the black community was lynched, all African Americans took that as a threat to their continued well-being. Often they were right…..A lynching by definition is a public murder. Those who carry it out do not bother to act in private, since they believe the community will support them. Thus…
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An Integrated Life – What Are We Taught Is Normal?
[blockquote type=”center”]In Harrison, Arkansas, in 1905, white “rioters swept through Harrison‘s black neighborhood with terrible intent. The mob of 20 or 30 men, armed with guns and clubs, reportedly tied men to trees and whipped them, tied men and women together and threw them in a 4-foot hole in Crooked Creek, burned several homes, and…
An Integrated Life – Our Racist Foundations
I’m starting a new series for a month or so based on the book Sundown Towns, and how we can use it to inspect the whiteness of our lives. It will feature several short posts, and hopefully it will give you a good feel for the book, especially for the people who don’t have time to…
An Integrated Life – A Series
I’m starting a new series for a month or so based on the book Sundown Towns, and how we can use it to inspect the whiteness of our lives. It will feature several short posts, and hopefully it will give you a good feel for the book, especially for the people who don’t have time to…
Solidarity and Poverty
[blockquote type=”center”]What does solidarity with the poor look like when you’re trying to avoid generational poverty?[/blockquote] This is a question I’ve been sitting with for awhile now. And I read this article earlier today that made me think some things. I was born in 1981, so I’m just barely a millennial, and my…
Untangling the Threads
Guess who has no idea on what’s appropriate for a college admission’s essay? This girl! I started writing and remembered this post from a couple of years ago, and updated and edited it, and this is roughly what I handed in. I’m sure it could be better, especially now that I’m re-reading it after I…
The Commoditization of Social Relationships
[blockquote type=”center”]“The Solomonic establishment embodies the loss of passion, which is the inability to care or suffer.” (The Prophetic Imagination 41) [/blockquote] “The first transcontinental railroad was built with blood, sweat, politics and thievery, out of the meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads. The Central Pacific started on the West Coast going…
Civil Rights Recap in Videos
With the 50th anniversary of the Selma march tomorrow, I wanted to bring all my kids up to speed on everything and place the current events within a historical framework. So we just sat and watched short videos for the last hour, and I just wanted to share them in case anyone else found them…
The Grind of Endless Production
[blockquote type=”center”]”The Solomonic achievement was in part made possible by oppressive social policy…Fundamental to social policy was the practice of forced labor, in which at least to some extent subjects existed to benefit the state or the political economy….it was unmistakably the policy of the regime to mobilize and claim the energies of people for…
Nightmare Into Policy
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e have, both in the story of Pharaoh and the United States, empires that take the land of the people. The Egyptians received food in exchange, while for the Native Americans it was lies, sickness, and poverty. Here Brueggemann is talking about Pharaoh and his dreams: [blockquote type=”center”]“The nightmare is about scarcity. The one with…