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A memoir of a White moderate’s repentance

February 23, 2021 My dream has always been to live in a house full of books. I saw one of those rolling library-ladders in a movie when I was a kid and always dreamed of riding on one someday. My dad is a professor, and I loved visiting his office and looking at all the books on his shelf. They signified a curiosity for truth and an arrival at maturity. Growing up, I collected my own bookshelves and occasionally just stare at the books on them for inspiration. My books have surrounded me, comforted me and helped me interpret life. As a Christian, my books have also helped me make sense of ...

Supporters of President Donald Trump storm the U.S. Capitol in Washington Jan. 6, after a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 presidential election. (CNS/Ahmed Gaber, Reuters) "Why isn't anyone from the church repudiating Trump's Jan. 6 message to his mob?" My brother mused with me about the outgoing president's words of "love and support" for the terrorists storming our nation's Capitol. "Why isn't anyone saying that love never incites violence? That love never deceives?" Trump soothed and encouraged his insurrectionists with a blasphemous message pretending that...

Advertisement: This essay is being published on Monday, Jan. 18, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It is now two days before Inauguration and five days after Trump's impeachment. These days feel like years. The forces of white supremacy and American Apartheid that Dr. King fought against those decades ago were never fully exorcised or vanquished. Advertisement: Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a civic holiday in America, one when the country celebrates its own belief (which is really a comforting lie) that it transcended racism and white supremacy through the blood sacrifice of one man and the oth...

Actually in charge of this courthouse so that didn't happen. we have not seen jussie smollett. we just saw the family looking pretty much the same they did in the courtroom, stone faced. a couple of other details we heard that, jussie smollett had asked those brothers to buy red hats to look like maga hats. that was something that has struck me again and again since i was in there, that he was really, ryan, just directing this whole thing. you know, he pointed at that camera. then when he was ghiving his police statement, he mentioned to the police, oh, i think the attack was probably caught o...