Okay, y’all. I wanted to avoid writing about this, because I’m tired of writing about black people killed by police. Seriously you all, I AM TIRED OF THIS. This is not my idea of a good time. I have a birthday coming up, and I’d rather be playing video games than dissecting the hypothetical scenarios…

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<![CDATA[ In case any of you doubt the existence of racial micro-aggressions: I was shopping at WinCo today, and when I went to pay for the $150 or so worth of food on the checkout counter, the young lady at the counter told me that “I’m sorry, it came up declined.” I was taken aback…

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<![CDATA[Get Out is a taut horror thriller from Jordan Peele, famous as half of Comedy Central’s sketch comedy duo Key & Peele. In Get Out, Peele makes his debut behind the camera, directing fresh-faced Daniel Kaluuya (Black Mirror, Sicario) and Allison Williams (The Mindy Project) with his original script. But rather than comparing it to…

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<![CDATA[So one of the problems I see in our political discourse, is that we often use the same words but mean different things. And nowhere is that problem more vexing than in our discussions about race. It's been a problem for a long time, of course, but ever since the election of Donald Trump, there…

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<![CDATA[They say that those who don't know their history are bound to repeat it. And there's a less well-known but corollary idea, that people who create realistic fictional content end up pulling their ideas from recent events. But every once in a while, both ideas converge: a piece of speculative fiction, drawn from elements of…

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<![CDATA[Last night, I posted the following status update to my Facebook account:   Wait, there’s been reports of racial harassment to people of color from Trump supporters? Well, we shouldn’t be surprised. I mean, when white Republicans send candidates to the White House, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending a candidate with supporters that…

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<![CDATA[ “We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain   For a variety of reasons, I voted for Hillary Clinton…

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<![CDATA[Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is out in theaters, and it dutifully fills all the boxes in the spy thriller checklist. Lifelike masks? Death-defying stunts? Car chases? Gunplay and physical combat? Glamorous locales? Check, check, checkity-pop-zoom-bam-BOOM. One thing that stuck with me was the title; an interesting development, because action movie titles are…

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<![CDATA[To Whom It May Concern,*   Ladies and gentlemen, the Confederate flag, a symbol of southern pride and heritage for generations, is under attack. Because of one isolated incident with a mentally ill young man who just happened to be seen with the flag several days before gunning down nine African-Americans at a random church, suddenly…

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