Author: Forgiven

Today’s Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. – Thurgood Marshall...

Hell and destruction are never full, so the eyes of man are never satisfied. – Proverbs 27:5 I find it amazing the degree of surprise so many people are feeling while witnessing the level vitriol being spewed at President...

In my class and place, I did not recognize myself as a racist because I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness by members of my group, never in invisible systems conferring unsought racial dominance on my...

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people’s fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence. – Kjell Magne Bondevik As the...

In a perfect world the photograph of a black man kissing his white wife on television would illicit little if any reaction from those viewing the photograph. However, we do not live in that perfect world and so last night when...