Charleston

To My Friends Who Have Not Posted, Acknowledged, Shared or Commented About the Tragedy in Charleston

[Edit: June 20th — I wrote this very soon after the shootings occured. I was in a raw state of despair. Since then, I have realized that these words, although…

Thoughts About Inclusiveness, and Other Charleston-based Musing

In the wake of yet another mass shooting in America, this time in what very clearly (to me anyway) looks like a terrible confluence of long festering racism in the deep south and an insane obsession with guns, there are…

One Terrorism, Two Standards?

When a Muslim suicide bomber blows himself up, when Muslims set off pressure-cooker bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line, when Muslims shoot up a French magazine’s office (and a kosher market), or, when ISIS beheads someone (or sets them on fire, or drowns them, or…), we…

Tragedy! Oh, Look, a Confederate Flag: The Goldfish Tank of Public Outrage

Sermon on Father’s Day: Charleston, My White Privilege, & Racism in America

Tips for White Allies

Or, How to Not be an Asshole

America’s Ugly State

On June 17, 2015, a white man opened fire on an AME church in Charleston, South…