Showing posts with label lynching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lynching. Show all posts
Saturday, May 9, 2020

Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans and Working Off the Nazi Past and the American Racist Past: A Report with Excerpts

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In February, I blogged a number of times about Susan Neiman's book Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (Farra...
Friday, April 6, 2018

In the News: Another Day, Another Police Shooting of Unarmed Black Man; POTUS Race-Baits Again; White Evangelicals Stage Coup

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These are thought-provoking things I've read in the past several days I thought I'd pass on to you; if any theme links them,...
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Remembering Martin Luther King's Death: "Such Barbarism and Inhumanity . . . Are Not Really Past"

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Friday, March 30, 2018

"You can't talk about #GoodFriday with any kind of moral relevance—any understanding of how Christ's crucifixion occurs all around us—without discussing police shootings"

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"Between 1880 to 1940, white Christians lynched nearly five thousand black men & women in a manner with obvious echoes of the Rom...
Saturday, May 7, 2016

"The Church Came Early to the Hanging": Deciphering Conversations About Race and Religion (and LGBTQ Humanity), As Trump Rises to Power

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The current political context is forcing Americans to discuss race, and churchpeople have some serious reckoning to do. Not only did th...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

In the News This Week: New Report on History of Lynchings in U.S.

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To my way of thinking, the news this week has been something like those Russian matryoshka dolls, in which doll nests inside doll, ea...