Tag: race
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Covering Our Nakedness With Lament
First posted in my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. In his little book about race, The Hidden Wound, Wendell Berry grapples with his history as a member of a southern land-owning family and how his racial whiteness impacts him in ways he’d previously been oblivious to. He’s willing himself to wake up. “What…
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Scapegoating the Racists
I first wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. My family moved to southern California the summer before my freshmen year of high school. That was the summer the Lakers lost to the Bulls in the NBA Finals. I think that loss was totally incidental to my decision to become…
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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…
David W. Swanson 