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The Death of a Black Man at the Hands of Black Officers Unveiled Something More Complex Than Whiteness

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…al that supplants preexisting identity stigmas related to race, ethnicity, class, or gender. Irrespective of the racial identity of an officer, the systemic nature of racial profiling which occasions instances of anti-Black police violence regularizes and perpetuates anti-Black and anti-poor biases as features of the job. To an extent, Blueness assumes to temporarily and conditionally absorb the disadvantaged aspects of one’s social location as sa…

Dispatches from the Workplace: The Big Squeeze

By Kim Bobo

…rican Dream: A Working Families’ Agenda for America. But this book is in a class of its own. Why? First, Greenhouse, a longtime New York Times reporter is a superlative writer—despite its considerable length (384 pages), The Big Squeeze is an engaging and lively read. Second, the issues of work in America and the way so many workers are being treated are the critical moral issues of the day. If, as the Catholic Bishops say, the true moral judge of…

U.S. Bishops’ 15–year Battle For ‘Conscience’ and Against Contraception

By Patricia Miller

…or family planning clinics in low-income neighborhoods that served working-class Catholics, even as they knew that better-off women could access contraceptives through private physicians. But the approval of the Pill in 1960 and growing bipartisan support in Congress for a national, federally funded family planning program eventually swamped their opposition and they gave up the fight. I’ve been told by more than one source that by the mid-1970s,…

Can a Morehouse College Man be Openly Gay?

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…linity that only wants to have sex and socialize with other black men. But class is a factor here, too. While many gay African-American men have the economic mobility to reside outside of the black community and are likely to intermingle with the dominant gay culture, most DL men don’t. “They’ve created a community of their own, a cultural party where whites aren’t invited. Labeling yourself as DL is a way to disassociate from everything white and…

Double Helix: Improving U.S. Science with Ethics

By Arri Eisen

…by the very folk who have tried to sneak or cram creationism into science classrooms. Nervous questions ring out: Which ethics do I teach? How do I know what’s ‘right’? Start slow and easy. First, ethics does not equal religion. Second, remember the costs of not doing this. Finally, remember Rachel; she’s not asking for us to get down on our knees and pray during Biochemistry class, but simply to start by not ignoring and ridiculing who she is. A…

Sympathy for the Devils: I Was a Pastor to Trump Supporters

By Daniel Schultz

…moogly, yes, more often than I would have liked. They were classic working-class whites, “Reagan Democrats,” though some were still Dems when I knew them. Many of them worked industrial, highly-unionized jobs, the kind the economy has been bleeding away for decades. The thing to know about them—the thing I learned too late, unfortunately—was that every time something changed in their lives, it changed for the worse. And I mean just about every sti…

Is a Secular System Right for Egypt?

By Austin Dacey

…central religious authority in Islam—no church, no priesthood, no clerical class to govern the religious (and certainly not political) lives of Muslims. . . . The problem is that Islamic doctrine, jurisprudence, and historical practice do, in fact, both assume and fundamentally rely on the existence of a single Muslim polity with authority over Muslims’ religious affairs and the religious scholar class. Ezzat diagnoses this circumstance as a vesti…

Unmasking the “Veiled Prophet” Behind a 135-Year-Old St. Louis Tradition

By Spencer Dew

…ctrical cable to publicly unmask the then-prophet as a VP of corporate agribusiness giant Monsanto). In more recent decades, explicit reference to the Veiled Prophet has itself been veiled—either abbreviated or replaced with new, generically wholesome titles for the events sponsored by the Veiled Prophet Organization, like “Fair St. Louis” or “America’s Birthday Parade.” As both exclusive ritual and public spectacle, intentionally exotified mumbo-…

Religious Right Loudly Protests LGBT ‘Day of Silence’

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…parents have taught them it’s okay to disregard the feelings of their LGBT classmates because they are “immoral” by their standards. Either way, the children who will stay home on Friday are reinforced in their bigotry, and reinforce the atmosphere of bigotry faced by LGBT students. Some parents, however, may send their kids to school thinking that it will be good to have a “voice of opposition” in the classroom during the Day of Silence. That’s n…

Why I Fear The Post-Trayvon Martin Sermon

By Elizabeth Drescher

…culture rigidly segmented and stratified on the basis of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and other social categories. I expect that she won’t, for instance, offer tepid prayers for the comfort of the Martin family and a promise of compensatory goodies at some heavenly banquet in the hereafter where, in one of the stupidest prayers I came across on Facebook in the wee hours of the morning, we are promised, “there is no death, pain or sorrow; nor p…