Today’s renaming of military bases for Confederates, re-installing of Confederate statue, denigration of Black holidays, refusal to acknowledge Black contributions while decimating civil rights by an openly white nationalist administration is all to signal the “restoration” of the racial order.

But, but shouldn’t we all be able to read it if it really exonerated him?

Whenever I had a student who cited the Bible, they never earned more than a C-, because they were literally preaching to the choir. To appeal to a wider audience, writers must use sources acceptable to that audience. Not even all Christians accept scripture.

Given how many black churches have been burned by Christian nationalists, I’m not sure the word “torch” is appropriate here. Then again . . . .