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July 2016

July 12, 2016

Open Letter to Obama: Please DO something!

The country needs the President to do something. Your statements are important but they are...

July 09, 2016

What to Do About Our Crisis of Racial Injustice?

The problems that we face are not about the police. We do not need to...

April 2016

April 08, 2016

How To Be an Effective White Ally

To destroy racism we have to destroy the system that was built upon Black people’s...

April 03, 2016

Do White People Need Black Friends?

Of the white people I know who actively think and care about racism . ....

April 02, 2016

The Perils of Negotiating Black Identity on a White Campus

I used to be the one to always speak out and speak my mind when...

March 2016

March 03, 2016

The Threat of Obama

Racism is a deep malignancy in the very core of our identity as Americans. A...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Is Slavery Really Over?

White people will never be able to understand the problem of policing and the black...

February 16, 2016

What Does the Lord Require of You? A Message for Comfortable Christians

Comfortable Christians need to step out of our comfort zones and begin to take risks...

January 2016

January 08, 2016

What Does It Mean to Say “All Lives Matter?”

Now, many whites across this country have reacted in support of the Black Lives Matter...

September 2015

September 15, 2015

What’s a White Christian to Do? Racism, White Privilege, and Stepping Up

White privilege and racism will not go away until we begin to address these problems...

September 10, 2015

Is a “Fair Trial” possible in a racist society?

Most of us aren’t trained to think about social problems in a structural way. When...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

Does it matter if my ancestors owned slaves?

In some ways, it doesn’t matter if my ancestors owned slaves. After all, my privilege...

July 2015

July 24, 2015

NC Legislators Cut Off Nose to Spite Face

In the midst of the racism and prejudice particularly against black people that permeates the...