I want to believe I grew up in an unprejudiced family, but I know it’s not true. My mother and aunts, when they spoke about Black people at all, tried to be charitable, but they also were patronizing. “They’re good people,” they’d say, or, “The ones we knew in Arkansas were always good to us.”

The path to “salvation” isn’t as straight and narrow as so much of the church seems to believe

Once you're done reading this, ask yourself, "Where have I seen this before? Where am I seeing this now?" Unless you're blind, or choose to be, I think you'll know where you're seeing it. Seeing it is the first step to stopping it, and maybe you'll help put an end to it.

“Hey, Matt, do you know what Joyce James said was the most beautiful word in the English language?” Seeing as how he blows James Joyce’s name, he’s obviously not the kind of guy who spends his free time reading Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.