Janelle Wong on How We Are All Evangelicals Now: "Evangelicals Embody U.S. Racial Attitudes on Steroids"

As I reminded us yesterday, it's not just white evangelicals: white U.S. Christians — of all confessional stripes, right and left, across the board — are chiefly responsible for preventing a much-needed national conversation about race that is necessary if American culture is successfully to negotiate its Trump-era political-religious crisis. 

James Cone, Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody, on What It Is to Be Black in America Today: What U.S. White Christians Refuse to Hear

Here is more from James Cone's book Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2018) which glosses what I posted earlier today about the conversation white American Christians, who are singularly responsible for the nightmare that is the Trump presidency, refuse to allow the nation to have:

Yes, More on Catholic MAGA Boys: Conversation White Americans (& Especially White Christians) Refuse to Have, or Why Trump Is in the White House

Nothing has changed, essentially, since Robert P. Jones offered us the analysis of our serious cultural-political-religious crisis in 2016 in the passages highlighted below.

This is a crisis in which white U.S. Christians are singularly, critically implicated. /1 pic.twitter.com/AObT14hixb

— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) January 30, 2019

Some Final Takeaways from the Covington Catholic Story: "Conservatives Have Realized They Can Construct a Parallel Reality and Have It Accepted," but "I Know What I Saw"

The Twitter gods and social media gurus and faux-liberal nannies have decreed that We Shall No Longer Talk of Covington Catholic. Since I have been out of commission due to my tooth extraction, however, I'm behind the curve. I still have things to say, and am of a mind to say more. Here's a selection of commentary I want to bring to your attention today:

Apologies for Being Behind in Responding to Comments Here

My apologies to all of you good readers who have left comments here in the past several days, to which I have failed to respond. This is another of those periods when I find myself falling behind — too much to read and write about, all happening too quickly. I have also been wrestling with tooth pain which should, I hope, abate after the offending tooth is yanked out tomorrow — and the dull, constant ache leaves me a bit lethargic (and also prone to mistype words here, for which I also apologize). I surely do appreciate your comments and am reading and learning from all of them.

P.S. If you have read my posting earlier today, please note three important footnotes I have now added to it as documentation for some of its assertions.

Have Watched Additional Footage of Covington Catholic Boys, and People Are Right: Such Questions It Raises! — Here Are Mine

Are we really going to debate whether those kids shouting ‘build the wall!’ in the face of a Native American while attending the March for Life in MAGA hats were just misunderstood?

Seriously?

— Joshua Holland 🔥 (@JoshuaHol) January 20, 2019

I've watched the additional footage of the Covington Catholic boys and Nathan Phillips circulated on social media yesterday, and it has really shifted my perspective. Now I have so many questions:

Viral Video of KY Catholic Teen "Pro-Life" Marchers Taunting Native American Elder Puts "Pro-Lifers" in Spotlight: "A Feature Not a Bug" of "Pro-Life" Movement

Imagine if Catholic schools made racism and not abortion the centerpiece of their moral education.

— Natalia Imperatori (@nimperatori) January 19, 2019