"I had fully intended to ignore President Trump’s latest round of racially charged taunts against an African American elected official, and an
But I made the mistake of pulling James Cone’s 'The Cross and the Lynching Tree' off my shelf — a book designed to shatter convenient complacency. Cone recounts the case of a
God help us. It is hard to write the words. This evil — the evil of white supremacy, resulting in dehumanization, inhumanity and murder — is the worst stain, the greatest crime, of U.S. history. It is the thing that nearly broke the nation. It is the thing that proved
When the president of the United States plays with that fire or takes that beast out for
Like, I suspect, many others, I am finding it hard to
What does all this mean politically? It means that Trump’s divisiveness is getting worse, not better. He makes racist comments,
Some political choices are not just stupid or crude. They represent the return of our country’s cruelest, most dangerous passion.
— Michael Gerson