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Trump and the Nobel Prize

I want to spend a few minutes discussing the Black Church. The Black Church is something that I’ve taken for granted. Until recently, I haven’t really studied the matter. The Black Church was just something that existed. As most of you know, I grew up in Dallas. Almost every Sunday, our family worshiped in a Black Church. I never thought much about it. Like nearly everything in this country, race and racism are at the core. After the American Revolutionary War, Baptists and Methodists spread across the South. Ministers evangelized and established churches. The initial idea was to create unified churches,

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Facing Reality

(Disclaimer – I wrote this right after the first debate. I never, in a million years, thought that Joe Biden would drop out of the race. Clearly I didn’t know Joe. Joe loves America the way we all should. Anyway here is my argument to get behind Joe!) I stopped watching debates 12 to 15 years ago. What exactly is the point of a presidential debate? What are we going to learn? Are we going to learn how the candidates will govern? No. A debate is an artificial situation that has nothing to do with governing the country. Phony, irrelevant “debates”

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American Woman

In 1776, there was no illusion that American independence was about anything other than White men. It was about White men arguing with other White men about freedom. The American Revolution really did nothing to address grievances of the poor, people of color, or women—White or Black. When you think about the history that we studied, it was about Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams. Rarely did we ever talk about a female. Women were just never mentioned. Every now and then, when you really dove into the details you could read about Abigail Adams. She was a

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Errington C. Thompson, MD

Dr. Thompson is a surgeon, scholar, full-time sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats.

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A Letter to America

The Thirteeneth Juror

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