Two things.
First of all, it’s entirely possible to belong to a community of people and yet disagree, strongly, with some of the positions they may take. This is particularly true of churches which often resemble family groups rather than narrow political parties. The church I attended most frequently was pastored by a
PromiseKeeper, but the [...]

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Dave at Orcinus monitors right-wing hate groups, eliminationist organizations, fascists, and proto-facists. He says the racist rhetoric is ramping up against Obama.

[T]he far right and its minions have been particularly ugly, including at least one explicit assassination threat, as well as an outpouring of racial bile in anonymous comments sections. As the likelihood of [...]

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Around Martin Luther King, Jr. day we tend to get a spate of articles from conservatives trying to
claim Dr. King as their own. And there’s also a lot of at-best misguided talk about color blindness. “I don’t even see color, I’m color-blind.” “It doesn’t matter to me whether you are white or black.” And [...]

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My friend and colleague Cheryl has written another interesting piece on race, and her experiences growing up.

Are You A Quadroon? I wasn’t surprised by the question. Since about a third of the way through Uncle Tom’s Cabin, I’d been wondering when someone would ask. It was clearly a third rail question that had pointedly [...]

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Via
Fred, I see Matt Ruff talks about racism in World of Warcraft.

For my first World of Warcraft character, I decided to play a troll of the hunter class. About an hour into the game I got sent on a quest to a seaside village called Sen’Jin, populated by my fellow trolls, and while interacting [...]

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