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Posts Tagged: racism
November 18, 2015
One young person’s subversive thoughts on church and society Please don’t shame my griefReflections on the violence in Paris and Beirut by Tad Hopp This weekend, my Facebook and Twitter feeds exploded with prayers, grief, and French flags in the wake of the horrific attacks in Paris that have left at least 129 people… Read more »
November 13, 2015
You can take the pastor out of the church, but you can’t take the Church out of the pastor. We’re all God’s childrenWhat I feel, as a black father, when I see a South Carolina police officer throw a teenage girl across a room by Derrick L. Weston Ever since my divorce and subsequent… Read more »
November 9, 2015
A white man’s frank and repentant exploration of how racism finds a home in white folks’ souls. Perpetually numbed and easily shockedWhy the white soul remains untransformed in the face of so much racial injustice by Jeffrey A. Schooley Writing these columns for the past half-year has revealed to me what I only instinctually… Read more »
October 12, 2015
A white man’s frank and repentant exploration of how racism finds a home in white folks’ souls. Racism is not a feelingHow the white soul has trained itself to define racism solely as conscious hate (and how it needs a new catechism on race) by Jeffrey A. Schooley A long time ago, when my… Read more »
September 14, 2015
A white man’s frank and repentant exploration of how racism finds a home in white folks’ souls. Origin storiesHow confusion about my whiteness leads to confusion about blackness by Jeffrey A. Schooley Origin stories are an essential component to any worldview. From an origin story comes clarity not only about the past, but also… Read more »
August 10, 2015
A white man’s frank and repentant exploration of how racism finds a home in white folks’ souls. Tell the story Learning to hear the collective witness of black brothers and sisters in Christ by Jeffrey A Schooley I want to begin with a proposition: (1) Evil prefers to hide from view. (2) Systemic racism… Read more »
July 13, 2015
Guest columnist Measuring (black) life with white tape What it’s like to be black in a country where white is normal by Derrick L. Weston My colleague Jeff Schooley asked me to contribute a companion piece to his latest Souls of White Folks article. I am privileged and happy to add some perspective. Whereas… Read more »
July 13, 2015
A white man’s frank and repentant exploration of how racism finds a home in white folks’ souls. Double-unconsciousness The blinding effect of the spiritual problem of racism by Jeffrey A. Schooley The Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world—a world which yields… Read more »
June 8, 2015
A white man’s frank and repentant exploration of how racism finds a home in white folks’ souls. Why the souls of white folks?The spiritual problem of racism by Jeffrey A. Schooley I’m sorry. I need to begin by apologizing for being just another white voice to weigh in on matters of race in the… Read more »
