Four words that are Not for all Cast a pall Build a wall Straight and tall Where only one side is right. Four words that Conjure an era Make nostalgia dearer Allay misplaced fear Make it clear There is only one way to be right. These same four words Erase black authority Deny brown integrity Evade […]
Tag: conservative
Family Wall
I keep hearing the story, mostly from my non-POC friends, about family members or people they are close to who voted for the incoming administration. These friends are all struggling to navigate feeling as if the world has been swept from under them, while having to face the people who did the sweeping on Facebook, […]
#unraced, #eraced
A Poem in (the) Twitter Verse* Racism is not just about white people and non-white people hating. It is about who has “race”. In the United States, there are “un-raced” bodies and “e-raced” bodies. E-raced means there’s a social algorithm that makes your color, culture, religion and customs an opaque burden. Un-raced means your color, […]
8.5% – An Open Letter to Linda Harvey
Thank you Linda Harvey of the conservative Christian organization Mission America for giving me the fire to write this. You and I do not live in the same world…and I’m glad. Dear Linda Harvey, Yes, indeed, I have decided to come out to myself as straight. I find women sexually desirable and beautiful and powerful. […]
Point of View
My word for the day is ‘perspective.’ Yesterday, President Obama did something unprecedented. He completely personalized an issue that he didn’t have to. Until yesterday, He was treading the road of Washington D.C. professional, political navigator…insider. But yesterday he made a surprise statement about the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case. For at least a portion of […]
Colonial Fool: Part IV – The REAL war on Religion
Sam Rohrer, president of the Pennsylvania Pastors’ Network, stated that he was “stunned at [the decisions on DOMA and Prop 8] today to take a 360-degree turn away from the biblical definition of marriage.…we must continue to work to keep marriages and families intact, the way God intended them, and pray for a continued revival […]
Too Quick to Covenant
“Should we create a covenant?” These are familiar words to Unitarian Universalists. I’ve found that in UU circles covenants are as common as coffee and dounts. Bless our bleeding, left leaning hearts, it seems that UUs more than any group are always determined to be in “right relationship” with one another, and we frequently begin […]
