Category: race
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Remembering a [Christian] Woman We Should Have Never Forgotten
I first wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. I recently reviewed a new book about Ida B. Wells for The Englewood Review of Books. The book, Passionate for Justice: Remembering a Woman We Should Have Never Forgotten, was co-written by a retired white pastor and an African American professor.…
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Will there be racists in heaven?
I wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. A few weeks ago a friend retweeted a well-known bishop who is vocal in his opposition to racism who had declared something along the lines of: I’d rather not go to heaven if I’ve got to be there with white evangelicals. To…
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Trying to Remember
I wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. Yesterday morning I walked three quarters of a mile from my in-law’s home in Brownsville, TN to this roadside marker beside a small family cemetery. James Bond, a quick internet search will reveal, was once one of Tennessee’s largest slaveholders. By the…
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Just how much racism is in our DNA?
I wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. This week I learned that there’s something called the World Socialist Website and that they published an interesting interview with James McPherson who’s book about the Civil War is exceptionally good. Anyway, the interview is ostensibly about The New York Times’ recently…
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“All of these fanatics were white.”
I wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. There was one place I wanted to visit during our recent 48 hours in Paris. Well, there were a bunch of places I hoped to visit, but there was one place in particular I wanted to sit. The Café de Flore was,…
David W. Swanson 