Jul 22, 2020 | Author - Wayne Northey
"To be Black in America is to have a knee against your neck every day." "Aboriginal leaders in Canada say that just because we did not institute the structures of our white forebears does not mean that we do not benefit downstream." A close...
Jul 16, 2020 | Author - Wayne Northey
WN: NOTE: This piece appeared in The Atlantic 6 years ago. It could have been written yesterday . . . or at any other point in American history. In the post, Cornel West Says ‘Neo-Fascist Gangster’ Trump and Neoliberal Democrats Expose America as...
Jul 15, 2020 | Author - Wayne Northey
Though not declamatory, this interview with Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of the just-published Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, is nonetheless scathing about white evangelical masculinity and the great “harm [done]...
Jul 11, 2020 | Author - Wayne Northey
“I thank God people are in the streets,” said the Harvard philosopher and activist. “Can you imagine this kind of lynching taking place and people are indifferent? People don’t care? People are callous?” –Dr. Cornel West Dr. Cornel West again tells it powerfully...
Jun 15, 2020 | Author - Wayne Northey
Dear Mr. Biden, I was moved by your empathetic videoed message to the Floyd family during the funeral service in Houston. You have deeply suffered multiple losses as this article sensitively points out: “Joe Biden’s Secret Weapon Is Grief“. I also appreciated your...
Apr 29, 2020 | Author - Wayne Northey
Cardinal Doran – Flikr|On Being Wayne Northey: The NCR article highlighted below shows American Catholic leadership to be quintessentially deplorable–abominable. Though Hilary Clinton was the wrong messenger, she got the message right: Trump supporters...
