Jul 26, 20206 minRegarding the State of My CountryYou kind of have to laugh to keep from crying. Sometimes my heart just breaks as I watch the lengths the powers of this world are willing...
Sep 26, 20173 minThis Is Today’s TestI really hate that we’re even having this conversation because it’s so damn stupid, but no one is disrespecting the flag. That’s just a...
Sep 5, 20172 minSadly, Being Nice Rarely Changes ThingsWhile I’m usually pretty nice and well behaved here on my blog, it has happened a time or two in real life and on social media that I...
Aug 14, 20174 minLet’s Be Real, My White Peeps . . . I could write books of examples of how my husband’s skin tone and nose have affected our lives. The time he almost died from incompetent...
Jan 15, 20172 minThis Makes No Sense to MeThere is this bizarre phenomena that I run into now and again where someone will respond to criticism of modern racism by pointing out...
Dec 21, 20167 minAll People Are RealI’ve mentioned a couple of times now that I have a dissociative disorder. A derealization disorder, in fact. Which means that when my...
Dec 18, 20163 minTreating the Least Poorly Will Come Back to Bite YouThe treatment which we as a society will allow the least to be subjected to will eventually become the kind of treatment we allow anyone...
Dec 17, 20166 minThat Time A Racist Killed My Husband’s CareerWell, maybe not killed, but definitely maimed. So what happened is once upon a time, a little over a decade ago, my husband had landed...
Dec 14, 20162 minIf God Wanted Trump In Office . . .If you are one of those people going around claiming that Trump is God’s choice to run the country, you need to be crystal clear about...
Dec 12, 20161 minJust Define the Racism Away . . .This morning on facebook, I commented on a post saying that we have not made nearly as much progress combating racism as we like to give...
Dec 9, 20162 minThe Fragility of Our Dominant CultureTrue story: someone I’m connected with on facebook just posted an article claiming that “radical leftists” were guilty of shutting down...
Sep 6, 20144 minEnough Bigotry to Go Around?Hey y’all! I just finished my fancy pants appearance on Moody Radio’s Up For Debate. (That I told you about yesterday which you would...
Sep 5, 20142 minBring the Smelling Salts and Set Your Alarm Clocks!Up For Debate with Julie Roys on Moody Radio. And I think she might be slightly incompetent. I mean, I’m no expert in these things and I...
May 23, 20146 minWhy the White Dude Crossed the TracksBack when I did prison ministry, we used to have this crazy old white dude who would come in to talk with the boys. He had a ministry...
May 21, 20147 minI See Rich People. They Talk to Me. . .The mouse on my computer broke. So now I’m back to writing on my kindle. Which is a marvelous bit of technology, but it has all sorts of...
Apr 24, 20144 minAll About Pain: The Toughness FallacyI don’t know what the weather is like where you are, but it’s cold, rainy and windy here by me so I’ll use that as my excuse for being a...
Apr 8, 20145 minBlack and White Drug Dealers in AmericaLate last Saturday night, my husband and some friends were driving home when there was an accident a ways ahead of them. A piece of...
Mar 26, 20144 minColonizing Cities for White American JesusNo one likes to think of themselves as racist or prejudiced. Even the KKK denies being a racist organization. Which for some people just...
Dec 9, 20136 minThe Least Have the AnswersBack when I was pregnant with my oldest son, I wound up without a place to live. The counselor at the crisis pregnancy center which was...
Feb 6, 20138 minStuff I Appreciate About Black FolksHey – want to watch me stick a fork in an electric outlet? ‘Cuz that’s pretty much the same thing as being a white person who talks about...