“Why bother researching [history] if we are unwilling to allow ourselves to be surprised, informed and disabused of preconceptions of how a situation [Jefferson and Hemings] must have unfolded?”
Category: Religion
Introducing Better Angels
“An American Declaration” serves as a sort of founding document for Better Angels although it has been alive and growing since the 2016 presidential elections
Can We All Be Racist?
My anti-racist friends tell me I just don’t understand, or recognize, the systemic nature of racism. But no culture lives under just one system.
Atonement as Activism – The American Interest
John McWhorter: Today’s consciousness-raising on race is less about helping black people than it is about white people seeking grace.
Junot Díaz: Condemn the Writer, Not the Writing | National Review
What about you? Who is the troubled, flawed or despicable individual whose artistics achievements you admire?
Opinion | The History of White Power; New York Times
Rather than focus on the 50,000 or so active hard-core racists truly responsible for horrible acts, we spend our our emotional anergy on that white guilt we seem to enjoy.
