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An Integrated Life – Hidden Fault Lines
In my high school of 1000 students, all of our teachers and staff were white. My class was nearly all-white. We had a small handful of Asians and Indians, out of a class of 250, and I think that was...
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An Integrated Life – Reputations are Important
“We have seen that sundown towns both collect and create racists, while integrated towns both collect and create anti-racists. Just as cognitive dissonance makes whites more racist when they live in a...
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An Integrated Life – Until We Solve the Problem of Sundown Neighborhoods…
“America should not have white neighborhoods or black neighborhoods. It should just have neighborhoods. People who live in interracial neighborhoods and towns have taken an important stand in favor of...
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An Integrated Life – The TL;DR Version
As Reconstruction ended, and the Great Migration was getting underway, white people collectively looked around and realized they weren’t alone. And they wanted to be. So they made it happen. A summary...
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When White Christians Support Good Cops
“The religious institutions became comfort stations for scribes and publicans and pharisees. Far from curing the wound of racism, the white man’s Christianity has been its soothing bandage – a bandage...
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Capitalism – How Much Are We Willing To Give Up For Our Neighbors?
I had a conversation one time with some friends, back when I was still conservative and struggling with it. One of them knew a person who was going to get an abortion, and wanted my friend to go with...
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Trouble I’ve Seen – Interview with Drew Hart
I’m so excited to share this discussion I had with Drew. His book, Trouble I’ve Seen is your must-read for the year. And, the Englewood Review of Books just selected it as their March Book of the...
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The Formation of Whiteness
Looking back, it was the little things that shaped me. The memories that stare me in the face, asking ‘Why do you still think of me? What can I possibly mean to you?’ It was one decision. One moment...
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For the Love of Humanity
We have some polls that are not changing and are simply baffling to understand. The group most committed to Donald Trump is white evangelicals. In spite of his hatred for brown and black people, his...
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Flinging Sparks at the Darkness
The way we move in the world is so often largely invisible to ourselves. We are unaware that what we take for granted could be so foreign to someone else. “How have you never heard of this show?”, “How...
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