…Black History Month or, what white folks call, “February.” Few persons use this time to find out things they don’t know. What was Jim Crow? Who was Frederick Douglass? How on earth did this country, “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” come so soon to tolerate […]
Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
LET’S SEE: THIS MONTH IS…
February 21, 2013Just Don’t Call Us Racists
January 23, 2010Denial, 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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