by Wendell Griffen | Jun 17, 2020 | Opinion
I have lost count of the number of times I’ve heard white journalists, politicians and self-described evangelical Christians express sorrow and make gestures of sympathy about the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. I have lost count of the...
by Joao Chaves and Malcolm Foley | Jun 3, 2020 | Opinion
The last few days have filled our memories with more blood of unarmed black men and women. Ahmaud Arbery’s, Breonna Taylor’s and George Floyd’s lives were taken in front of us in an outrageous spectacle of monstrosity that reveals the worst tendencies of our white...
by Justin Bishop | Jun 3, 2020 | Opinion
Silence is complicit. I’m sure I’ll get something wrong here. However, if I wait until I’ve figured out exactly what to say, I probably won’t say anything, and that’s part of the problem. We see the pain and the chaos, and we say a prayer and try to move on with our...
by Preston Clegg | May 19, 2020 | Opinion
“Ahmaud Arbery” “Two God-fearing men” I cannot get these words out of my mind. They are a reminder of the tragic results from the ideology, the religion, of white supremacy, in which white lives are idolized and black lives matter little. White supremacy seeks to...
by Preston Clegg | May 18, 2020 | Opinion
“Ahmaud Arbery” “Two God-fearing men” Some words will not let you go. I’ve been repeating those words and wondering what one phrase has to do with the other. On Feb. 23, two white men, Gregory and Travis McMichael, murdered Ahmaud Arbery, a black man jogging in a...
