Category: Race and Religion
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How Christianity Got Co-Opted and We Got Trump
In a state of decline, evangelicalism continues to reject the Bible’s social justice message in favor of white American hegemony.
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Bigotry and Disenfranchisement: Making Sense of Trump Supporters’ Motivations
Understanding Trump means getting outraged and intervening – against both bigotry and a system that isn’t working.
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War in the Name of God: Christianity Is No Less Addicted Than Any Other Religion
America’s wars are religious affairs in which young people are called to sacrifice themselves for the Christian God.
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Perspective Should Trump Sensationalism
Prominent Democratic media figures and politicians have long argued that Donald Trump is a uniquely terrifying threat to America’s future. Back in February, for example, Ezra Klein called Trump “the most dangerous presidential candidate in memory.” In March, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz claimed that Trump is “the most…
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Voting for Bernie Sanders, Learning from Ta-Nehisi Coates
Several months ago, Black Lives Matter activists targeted Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders with protests. Many of my fellow Sanders supporters thought these protests unfair, in large part, as I explained at the time, because Sanders “has an excellent record on racial justice issues, much better than any other candidate…
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Donald Trump is A Problem, Not The Problem
Last September, Frank Rich wrote an article for New York Magazine entitled “The Importance of Donald Trump: Far from destroying our democracy, he’s exposing all its phoniness and corruption in ways as serious as he is not. And changing it in the process.” How so? Rich argued that Trump has…
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What’s the Best Way to Deal with the Ku Klux Klan?
On the recommendation of my friend and colleague Mike Mitchell, I recently listened to a fascinating podcast about Daryl Davis, an award-winning musician who is best known for his role in bringing down the Maryland chapter of the Ku Klux Klan – through his friendship with Klan members. In the…
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Black Lives Matter Movement Gives Bernie Sanders’ Racial Justice Agenda the Push It Needs
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has unveiled a comprehensive racial justice agenda aimed at “addressing the four central types of violence waged against black and brown Americans: physical, political, legal and economic.” The agenda includes, among other policy proposals, a call for police demilitarization, community policing, aggressive prosecution of police officers…
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Money and Power Matter. Family Structure, Not So Much.
50 years ago, Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a report called The Negro Family: The Case For National Action. The central argument in what has come to be called the Moynihan Report was that “The Breakdown of the Negro Family Has Led to a Startling Increase in…
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How much is a (black) life worth?
I avoided writing about these issues of police brutality against black folk for a long time, because I was afraid that once I did, the chronic depression that lies latent within the black cultural consciousness would rear its ugly head — and it did. The names and “heartbreaking cases” seem…
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