The following incident just happened less than thirty minutes ago. I walked down to the Country Garden Six-Pack to get some beer. While in line, a couple who were not wearing masks cut the line and started to crowd me at the register. I turned and stuck my arm out to create space and …
Tag: black lives matter
Dear white people…
Dear white people, Hello, I'm Dillon, and if you're a white American, I am writing specifically to you. Like you, I am a white person in America. In fact, according to the two DNA tests I took a few years ago via Family Tree DNA, I am super-duper white. My test results showed that my …
Unmerited advantages
Privilege is something seen throughout American life by certain individuals and groups. Sometimes it comes in the form of granting someone permission to do something in particular and is relatively innocuous. If the students I am teaching at the school I work at get done with their work, I allow them to use their smart …
Some issues are black and white
Jesus was nonviolent. If one reads the Gospel accounts and takes them seriously, the fact that Jesus was nonviolent is easy to ascertain. It's right there, in black and white (or sometimes red, with 'red letter editions'. Angry white men are all too often the perpetrators of mass shootings. Despite having killed 9 people, all …
The Tattooed Theologian 