Shrewdness of White Supremacy: Convenient Denial of White Affirmative Action...
By Fredrick D Robinson Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s outrageous suggestion that some Blacks don’t belong in top tier universities because of their lack of intellectual talent made me dust off...
View ArticleGOP’s love of Donald Trump fueled by their hatred of Obama
By Fredrick Robinson Rather than denouncing Donald Trump for his outrageous bigotry, many Republicans are circling his wagons. “Not all in N.C. GOP wary of Trump,” read this morning’s headline in the...
View ArticleTraditional, American-style evangelicalism needs to be born again
By Fredrick Robinson Putting pressure on poor and marginalized people —as traditional, American-style does— to just work harder, practice respectability, pray, have faith and pull themselves up by...
View ArticleI don’t believe Sandra Bland took her own life. But what if she did?
By Fredrick D. Robinson I don’t believe Sandra Bland took her own life. Not for a second. But what if she did? What ugliness and unspeakable horror did she encounter in Waller, Texas that would make...
View ArticleWhat Is White Supremacy? In Plain Speak
By Fredrick D. Robinson What is White Supremacy? Some people reduce it to the ideology of those who historically identified as white supremacists and white nationalists. People that wanted to...
View ArticleTears Over The Confederate Flag: Straining At A Gnat, While Swallowing A Camel
By Fredrick D. Robinson While I celebrate the fact that the Confederate flag is coming down in South Carolina, I hope Rep. Jenny Horne’s tears don’t stop at that victory. For those of you who don’t...
View ArticleWhite Evangelicals, If serious about authentic reconciliation, here are four...
By Fredrick D. Robinson The horrific mass murder of nine people at the historic Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, SC will no doubt ramp up calls by white evangelicals to more strongly support...
View ArticleSwimming while Black? Responding to the police state under which we live.
By Fredrick Robinson By now most of us have seen the horrifying video of the pool party in McKinney, Texas where a group of Black teens were terrorized by police and treated like common criminals....
View ArticleJustice and the Church: What we must NOT DO is look the other way
Too often the church is guilty of misleading its members on matters of economic, social and racial injustice. Much of our theology suggests that all we need is “just a little more Jesus” to help us...
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