by Joe Phelps | Jul 31, 2020 | Opinion
It is someone else’s problem, not ours. That’s how many of us white people have felt if we haven’t seen racial injustice up close and personal. It hasn’t been completely real or relevant. No longer. I live in Louisville, Kentucky, where in May, amid news of Ahmaud...
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...
