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Let me say it again, just to be clear. I know that I don't know what it means to be black in America. That’s an awkward way to say it. Here's what I mean. § I am white, and I am privileged. And for most of my adult life, that privilege was invisible …
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After the Charleston tragedy, I posted this on Facebook: “No words for what happened in Charleston. Just no words...stunning...” I was right in one sense. It was stunning. I wrong about the other part. There are words. There must be words. In Charleston Shooting: Speaking the Unspeakable, Thinking the Unthinkable, Charles P. Pierce challenges us …
Race. Labor. Civil War. Apple. Corporate responsibility, art, and Christ. The present moment, Sabbath, friendship, taking on the world. Somewhere in China, men, women, boys, and girls, each having singular, personal names just like we do, sacred mysteries all (see yesterday's post), will go to work today, and the only thing keeping them from flinging …
Here's an interesting question: what types of ceremonies, rituals, and celebrations are appropriate for remembering the war officially known as "The War Between The States"? (So said Congress in 1948, one reenactor pointed out to me last weekend.) Actually, Wikipedia refutes my friend the reenactor, saying Congress never officially legislated a name for the war. …
JEFF BERRYMAN 