HOW ICONIC “At first he made me mad… then he made me laugh; then he made sense.” Those words from a 1994 Rush Limbaugh television promo echo the sentiment of many of the 15.5 million listeners of his syndicated weekly program. That alone speaks volumes of the...
THE ENEMY WITHIN Summer of 2020. Coronavirus was just starting its takeover, shortly before the mask mandates. As a bread vendor, I was working at a store filling the bread on the lower shelves. This anonymous woman (who happened to be White) stopped as she was...
SELF INFLICTED It was November 2nd, 2015. On this cold Monday afternoon, 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was playing with a few other children in South-side Chicago’s Dawes park. Dwright Boone-Doty, then 21, approached Lee, and begin to earn his trust by playing basketball...
SELF INFLICTED It was November 2nd, 2015. On this cold Monday afternoon, 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was playing with a few other children in South-side Chicago’s Dawes park. Dwright Boone-Doty, then 21, approached Lee, and begin to earn his trust by playing basketball...
SITUATION CRITICAL “Since White people in America hold most of the political, institutional, and economic power, they receive advantages that nonwhite groups do not. These benefits and advantages, of varying degrees, are known as White privilege. For many White...
TRAIN UP A CHILD “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” -Proverbs 22:6. While most of us can likely recite that scripture by heart, do we understand its true value? When we consider the direction a child should go,...
