Kenneth W. Wheeler

A tight-fitting shoe

From “US: The Resurrection of American Terror” by Rev. Kenneth W. Wheeler I have found the metaphor of a tight-fitting shoe helpful in trying to describe the racial nightmare that has been forced upon Black people. A tight-fitting shoe is painfully uncomfortable. White supremacy and Jim Crow segregation are abnormal, as abnormal as asking someone […]

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Lip Service

From “US: The Resurrection of American Terror” by Rev. Kenneth W. Wheeler After every Racial Awareness Sunday, I would go back to my community on the far northwest side of Milwaukee. And the white members would return to their lives, where they would rarely come in contact with a person of color. In their everyday

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