Denial, as they say in Twelve Step programs, ain’t just a river in Egypt. And there is an adage in religious circles that Dutch Baptists choke on their pipes when they see Spanish Baptists drinking red wine. Everyone else has a problem, except “us.” And certainly we are not racists. To say, as was common […]
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Just Don’t Call Us Racists
January 23, 2010Mad About Race Again
August 8, 2009The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. episode in the heart of Massachusetts’ liberal intellectualism revived latent feelings in people of all races nationwide. A spark set off a conflagration in the “Republic of Cambridge,” Massachusets and has all the nation up in arms, except in countries where people subjected to real race riots and even genocide […]
Just Do the Right Thing
January 25, 2009The election of a black president is not to say we have vanquished American racism Beware of thinking this is a new day in race relations. It is and it isn’t. For many young people, black and white, the civil rights movement is ancient history; the rest of us remember vividly segregated schools and separate […]
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