This blog post is in response to a recent opinion piece by David French in the New York Times. French describes himself as an Southern-born evangelical Protestant. I identify myself likewise, and I’m certain that he and I must agree on many things. However, I strongly disagree with many of his statements in this article. […]
Race and racism remain a big issue in 2024. America has experienced a turbulent racial history. Blacks endured more than two hundred years of chattel slavery until freed by a bloody civil war. They continued to suffer legal and de facto discrimination for another hundred years. But that all changed during the past sixty years. […]
Some Democrat Party leaders, are calling for reparations to help atone for the evils of slavery and eliminate the wealth gap between White and Black Americans. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden told The Washington Post that he supports studying how reparations could be part of larger efforts to address systemic racism. Biden’s running mate, California Sen. […]
Several years ago I wrote an essay on Race and Racism in America. I failed to get anyone to print it, but I still believe that it was an accurate and fair description of our troubled racial past and our current situation. I urge you to read it. You can find it on the web […]
I have written enough on this subject – at least for a while. Nevertheless, I feel compelled take one more shot. Yes, black lives do matter! I believe it. Everyone I know believes it. I can understand why rage boils up in the American black community. For years they were enslaved. Following their liberation […]
In an earlier post entitled “The Master Race” I described how Adolph Hitler’s insane racial theories led to the death of millions of people, with the European Jews suffering most severely from this madness. I also posited the thought that the truth is exactly opposite from what Hitler believed. True racial superiority is not to […]
Adolph Hitler and his followers espoused the theory of a master race. The Nazi Party proclaimed that persons of supposed Nordic or Aryan descent appear most frequently among Germans and other northern European peoples and are superior to persons of other races. Slavs, Gypsies, and Jews were specifically defined as being inferior, and their presence […]
What is the truth about race and racism in America? It is a difficult subject, and an honest, in-depth discussion of the issue is usually avoided. Former Attorney General Eric Holder accused us of being a “nation of cowards” for our avoidance of a frank discussion of race in America. Perhaps he was right. Each […]
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