This is an excerpt from Chanequa Walker-Barnes’s book, I Bring the Voices of My People, pp. 128-31. At the heart of whiteness, then, is a great moral injury. The justification and maintenance of a slave economy required the construction and defense of an elaborate cultural system. Literally everything—laws, religious beliefs and practices, educational systems—had to […]

Attempting to explain evangelical support for President Trump, Brit Hume of Fox News wrote the following: Hume has rightly identified the deception to which evangelicals have fallen captive: they regard their place in the wider culture in terms of combat. Their twin error is that they imagine that they have human enemies and that they […]