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Diminishing the Black voice and life
“One of the most damning legacies of white supremacy was not just the way it terrorized us with impunity and devalued us by denying our citizenship and disrespecting us by assaulting our dignity, it was also how it wounded our minds and wounded our souls and wounded our bodies. Any conception of God, (James) Baldwin wrote, must deal honestly with…
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Learning from the gift of rage
We don’t mind “white rage.” It gets us, as whites, back in control. We can then call it “proper political discourse” or something nice like that. Black rage? We, as whites, consider that dangerous.
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The slow education of Dan Thompson
It is a hard read. We, as white people, have nothing on the line. George Floyd, in “our book,” is over. We read a couple of books by actual black authors a couple of years ago. So… why read another “hard book?”
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What radicalized you?
This was the question pushed at Danté Stewart when he began to speak out in white spaces on the pain of the black community.
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The danger of “erasure”
Danté Stewart’s book, Shoutin’ in the Fire, tells a story we need to hear. It’s completely uncomfortable and we, as whites, really don’t like that. His story is real. We are too capable of walking away from tough realities.
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Words to carry us … we stay IN historical struggle and cannot deny it
We’re in a time period where censorship is trying to rob a more full history from our schools. We have to keep reminding (white) folks of ALL the history that involved.
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Teaching a certain theological truth is NOT truth… or love
I am working my way through Dante Stewart’s book, Shoutin’ in the Fire. When he was in college, he found himself accepted in white evangelical circles (especially within Reformed circles) as long as he left being Black at the door.
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White spaces
Three books I am choosing to walk through my next phase of learning. It is February and “Black History Month,” so I use it as a launching point for what I want in my life moving into the rest of the year.
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The need for toughmindedness
“There is little hope for us until we become toughminded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of softmindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce softminded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.” — Martin Luther…
Tag: Black History Month
