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December 2018

December 19, 2018

The Most Sobering Thing about the Racial Dot Map

When activists talk about the criminalization of the African American male and the need for...

December 18, 2018

Conservative: “Hate Has No Home Here” Signs Are Cause of Division

According to Buckley, It's the No Hate Here signs that are dividing neighborhoods, not the...

December 13, 2018

“Father, Husband, Brother, or Son” Is for White Men

In October, during his hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Kavanaugh urged those listening to...

December 06, 2018

Ross Douthat Mourns the Decline of White (Anglo-Saxon Protestant) Supremacy

Yesterday, Ross Douthat published an opinion piece in the New York Times titled Why We...

December 04, 2018

RIP Emantic Bradford, A Good Guy with a Gun

If Philando Castile's death showed that second amendment rights are for white people, Roberson and...

November 2018

November 13, 2018

Does Anyone Know What Racism Is Anymore?

We have become a people afraid of labels---but not of the things the labels describe....

October 2018

October 03, 2018

Ursula Le Guin and the White Default

Anyone who wants complain about the alleged "political correctness" involved in changing characters like Meg...

September 2018

September 12, 2018

On John MacArthur’s (Very Racist) Statement on Social Justice

MacArthur's statement highlighted the very thing he claims doesn't exist---the racism of white evangelicalism. We...

August 2018

August 27, 2018

It Is Long Past Time for Evangelical Leaders to Condemn Doug Wilson’s Views on Slavery and the South

According to Wilson, the South was a truly Christian society. The North was pagan and...

August 08, 2018

Remember that “Do You Live in a Bubble” Quiz you took on Facebook? It was Written by a White Supremacist.

Do you remember that quiz that was wildly popular on facebook a few years ago---the...

July 2018

July 26, 2018

Why Do So Many White Evangelicals Object to the Browning of America?

A belief that developing populations need white help---and that they are incapable of helping themselves---is...

January 2018

January 18, 2018

Racism Is Not a Synonym for Hatred: Or, Why Rand Paul’s Comments Fall Flat

Historically, racism has generally been enmeshed in ideas about superiority and inferiority, not a personal...

December 2017

December 14, 2017

Red and Yellow, Black and White: Evangelicals Miss a Wakeup Call on Race

For all the alienation from mainstream culture I felt when I first left evangelicalism, having...

November 2017

November 02, 2017

What’s in a Word: Nazism, White Supremacy, and Racism

In the last few years I have become convinced that people are often more afraid...

September 2017

September 27, 2017

Doug Wilson: The National Anthem Is Required by God, but the Pledge is Socialist

To the surprise of no one, controversial pastor Doug Wilson has written a long, rambling...

September 07, 2017

The Christian Hagiography of Robert E. Lee Endorsed by James Dobson and Tim LaHaye

I grew up in an evangelical home, but I must still be somewhat naive about...

September 06, 2017

How a White Supremacist Book Found Its Way Into a Family’s Homeschool

I was recently asked to go through several boxes of books at the home of...

July 2017

July 26, 2017

The New Face of Racism in “Colorblind” America

I grew up hearing two things about race—first, that my (white) community was “colorblind” and...

June 2017

June 20, 2017

Evangelical Pastor Doug Wilson Rips Southern Baptist Convention for Condemning White Supremacy

Yes, you read that right---Wilson equated antebellum abolitionism with racial hatred and called it a...

June 14, 2017

Why Ken Ham’s Rhetoric on Race Is Counterproductive

Talking about racism is not the problem. Racism is the problem. Ham may think he's...

June 13, 2017

The Limits of Bystander Intervention

Bystander intervention is absolutely necessary, but it is neither pretty nor a cure-all. It is...

May 2017

May 18, 2017

Where Do We Direct Our Criticism?

I've noticed a pattern of affirming African American activists' goals---i.e. the wrongness of the oppression...

May 16, 2017

Confederate Monuments and “Historical Vandalism”

This weekend torch-wielding protesters chanted Nazi slogans as they rallied in defense of a statue...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

On Solving Racial Inequalities

Consider the situation at the end of the Civil War. With few exceptions, freed slaves...

April 24, 2017

Local Media Punts on White Supremacism

News organizations should be giving readers the context and history of white supremacist messaging, making...

April 13, 2017

San People Create Research Code

Science, as conducted by researchers, is not automatically inclusive, accurate, or beneficial. Fortunately, scientistic bodies...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

Is Xenophobia Really This Normative?

I live in a city. My daughter attends school with immigrants and the children of...

March 13, 2017

Say What Now? Republicans on Discrimination.

Growing up in a white evangelical conservative Republican home, I remember my parents saying that...

March 01, 2017

Was the White House Meeting with Historically Black Colleges and Universities a Sham?

In the end, it looks as though inviting leaders of Historically Black Colleges and Universities...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

Historian Kevin Kruse Takes Down Conservatives’ Betsy DeVos / Ruby Bridges Comparison

Kevin Kruse is a historian of the twentieth century U.S. at Princeton. He literally wrote...