After the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, books about racism and race relations dominated best-seller lists for the first time. The term white fragility entered the lexicon along with critical race theory and antiracism. A reckoning with history took the form of dialogue about the social obligation to accurately represent Black lives inContinue reading “The State of Us”
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Trapped In A History
“You were born where you were born and faced the future you faced because you were black and no other reason. I know your countrymen do not agree with me about this… they do not know Harlem, and I do. For these innocent people have no other hope. They are, in effect, still trapped inContinue reading “Trapped In A History”
Lenses
With the exception of a daytrip to Harlem when I was nineteen, my first experience of a black-majority community was a class I took in grad school on the theologies of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. The instructor and half the class were African-American. The teacher, a Baptist minister, recontextualized the Christian religionContinue reading “Lenses”
Books Smitten 