Jemar Tisby Why Removing Racist Symbols and Monuments Matters by Jemar Tisby https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/why-removing-racist-symbols-and-monuments
Catherine Meeks How then does one begin? For many years I believed and hoped that altering psychological processes like changing the master status, making people aware of their projections and how they “other” people, would solve the…
Heather McGhee Affirmative action The idea of affirmative action looms large in the white imagination and has been a passion among conservative activists. Some white people even believe that Black people get to go…
Ibram X. Kendi Dueling consciousness White people have their own dueling consciousness, between the segregationist and the assimilationist: the slave trader and the missionary, the proslavery exploiter and the antislavery civilizer, the eugenicist and the…
Heather McGhee The zero sum is a story by wealthy interests for their own profit In decade after decade, threats of job competition - between men and women, immigrants and native born. Black and white - have perennially revived the fear of loss at another’s…
Mark Feldmeir We have the moral responsibility to open our eyes and see our society more truthfully If we want to understand racism in the U.S., as uncomfortable as it might be for us, we have the moral responsibility to open our eyes and see our society…
Duke Kwon Convictions Our response is framed by seven core convictions that we believe are foundational to a constructive engagement with the work of reparations. The first regards the nature of racism itself.…
Heather McGhee Racial hierarchy Most Euro-Americans were not, and would likely never be, the wealthy aristocrat who had every social and economic privilege in Europe. Eternal slavery provided a new caste that even the…
Robert P. Jones Father Lucas recalled one zealous priest standing on the church steps with a bullwhip to discourage any blacks from attending services. As blacks began to pour into northern cities to escape oppression in the South as part of the “great migration” in the early nineteen hundreds, the Catholic Church responded by…
Mark Feldmeir Greater awareness of racism I do not presume to have arrived on the issue, or to be “woke.” I simply want to share with you what I have discovered on my own journey toward…
Catherine Meeks The transformation of hearts is essential Opposing racism but not being active in combatting it sounds rather benign. Forfeiting opportunities to act creatively for race relations may be the greatest contributor to racism’s malignant persistence in…
Uncategorized The cycle hardened the racist ideas inside me Like the famous question about the chicken and the egg, the answer is less important than the cycle it describes. Racist ideas make people of color think less of themselves,…
Uncategorized Racial Awareness and Mindfulness Festival 2021 Learn more and register here: http://raf2021.eventbrite.com/ On Saturday October 16, 2021, people across the globe are invited to come together in unity to experience a festival designed to help average…
Uncategorized Contributions of this book Though we intend for this book to be introductory, we also hope that it will make substantive contributions to larger conversations regarding reparations both inside and outside of communities of…
Robert P. Jones They refused to integrate The Baptist denominational history is not unique in American Christianity. Virtually all of the major white mainline Protestant denominations split over the issue of slavery. For example, Northern and Southern…
Kerry Connelly America is good. Americans are good. In his July 2019 newsletter to his followers, evangelical leader James Dobson described a visit to the southern border of the United States during what can only…
The Guardian Illinois city’s reparations plan was heralded – but locals say it’s a cautionary tale https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/18/evanston-illinois-reparations-plan-cautionary-tale
The Guardian More than 9,000 anti-Asian incidents reported in US since pandemic started Stop AAPI Hate documents 9,081 reports since March 2020, including harassment, shunning and physical assault https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/12/anti-asian-stop-aapi-hate-covid-report
Susan K Smith “True Christians” Americans have never had a monolithic view of Jesus, nor have they had a monolithic understanding of what Christianity is. In fact, so-called liberals and conservatives are miles apart when…
The Atlantic This Is the End of Affirmative Action What are we going to do about it? By Adam Harris https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/the-end-of-affirmative-action/619488/
Mark Feldmeir How can we talk about race without the defensiveness, reflexivity, and scapegoating? Baltimore, Ferguson, Charlottesville, Charleston. Trevon, Tamir, Sandra, Philando, and Freddie. Kaepernick, Serena, Barkley, and Lebron. White supremacy, white privilege, white fragility, and woke. “Hands up, don’t shoot.” “I can’t breathe.”…
