Today’s White Niggers | Part 9: The Luminous Darkness
America creates dark feelings in whites. These dark feelings can be transformed into a luminous darkness that can mend racially-ravaged hearts. The shining light of this luminous darkness is unconditional love.
Read moreToday’s White Niggers | Part 8: Why White Niggers Are Abandoning Conservative and Mainline Churches
Liberal clergy today by their own admission are not strong spiritual leaders. Could they create new congregations in underused mainline sanctuaries? Yes. But only if they avoid the “sin of anti-blackness” discourse, which self-perpetuates and reaffirms what it ostensibly proscribes: white racism against African Americans.
Read moreToday’s White Niggers | Part 7: White Niggers and The Tea Party Religion
Religion, race, and God are tightly bound together in Tea Party political tactics. The religious power of The Tea Party movement is its attention to the aggrieved feelings of … broken, angry, enraged, and despairing white hearts as a religious practice.
Read moreToday’s White Niggers | Part 6: Poor Whites as Cannon Fodder for the Slave Powers
Today’s militarized white hate groups, with their pervasive sense of being threatened by the American government, are right but for the wrong reason. They sense that something is radically wrong with a governance system that allows the top one-tenth of 1% to own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%. Niggers of all colors unite.
Read moreToday’s White Niggers | Part 5: The Philadelphia Convention of 1787; The Coup
The Framers of the U. S. Constitution diminished the voting power of non-slaveholding whites, but made it look like an attack against blacks. The voter suppression became a founding principle of the American system of governance. The narrative begins with greed…
Read moreToday’s White Niggers | Discussion A: Black-Faced Feelings
Reflection and Discussion. An exercise in practicing love beyond belief as the heart of compassion for ourselves, others, and the world.
Read moreToday’s White Niggers | Part 4: The White Skin Privilege Scam in the North
In the 19th century, at least three-quarters of the country’s northern industrial workers were immigrants or the children of immigrants. These workers got trashed. The message was clear: assimilate. Abandon ethnic identities and become lower-class whites. They got the message and black-faced their ethnic feelings, creating America’s first national cultural institution: the blackface minstrel show.
Read moreThandeka’s Interview with Westar Institute: Paul’s Brain Science of Emotions
Modern science may reveal things that Paul understood at an instinctive level—things that we can see now with much greater clarity. Using the tools of affective neuroscience, Thandeka examines Paul’s first-century attempt to teach selfless love, demonstrating how this love relates to human psychology, and asking if selfless love is the true value and future of religion.
Read moreToday’s White Niggers | Part 3: White Suicide
White people are killing themselves at a higher rising rate than members of any other racial group in America today. What’s going on? And for those of us who are not white, why should we give a damn?
Read moreToday’s White Niggers | Part 2: “White-Skin Privilege” Exposed
The concept of white privilege was created to hide white suffering. The story begins 400 years ago when jobs weren’t shipped abroad, people were.
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