Reading Dostoevsky Behind Bars
It was one thing to showcase our excellence through the societal standards of success, but what did it all mean if as a collective, we were still relegated to the bottom of the social ladder. It’s as if the benefits of integration would come at the cost of Black obligation to ourselves. We lacked a moral standard, ethics, values, and a code of cond
... See moreJohn Graham • Plantation Theory: The Black Professional's Struggle Between Freedom and Security
could be more ravaging to the human spirit? Here Domingo was, alone in a jail, with no chance to mourn over the body of his brother, no chance to grieve with his family, and looking at some considerable jail time. And a long way from home.
Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
I found this teaching that you did on — and so one of the things you say about Elie Wiesel, it sounds like you all talked a lot about “moral madness” — and boy, does that sound like an apt way to talk about the world at this part, in this century, right now — and that the way to meet that is not necessarily a kind of straightforward sanity. I kept ... See more