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So I’ve Been Publicly Shamed: Or, Why I Hate Twitter

March 29, 2022 by Randal

Yesterday, I posted a critique of Will Smith on Twitter. Personally, given that I do investigatory work into workplace conflict including instances of physical and emotional abuse, harassment, and other breaches of psychological safety, I was especially disturbed by his recourse to violence in hitting Chris Rock coupled with the toxic masculinity encapsulated in modeling […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: racism, twitter

One of the most profound statements I ever heard on race and racism came from a game show host

December 2, 2020 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: race, racism, Richard Dawson

Dragging Jesus Through the MAGA-Mud

July 27, 2019 by Randal

Yesterday, Sean McDowell posted a tweet about Joshua Harris no longer calling himself a Christian: Sean McDowell: Joshua Harris apologizes to the LGBTQ community and announces he is no longer a follower of Jesus: (link: https://www.instagram.com/p/B0ZBrNLH2sl/) instagram.com/p/B0ZBrNLH2sl/ This prompted me to reply: Randal: Let’s be precise, please. I don’t know where he’s at, but he […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christianity, Donald Trump, evangelicalism, MAGA, racism

Issac Watts and His Racist Hymn

February 23, 2019 by Randal

With over 700 hymns to his credit, including classics like “When I survey the Wondrous Cross,” Isaac Watts is rightly considered one of the great hymn writers of Christian history. Another one of his most well known and best-loved hymns is “Jesus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun”. While I grew up hearing this hymn, I […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: colonialism, hymnody, racism

Let’s discuss the Confederate Flag in Pop Culture

February 2, 2019 by Randal

Here’s my Twitter survey question posted this morning. Is there still a place for the General Lee in pop culture memory or should we do away with images of the Confederate flag once and for all? Let me know your thoughts below. Given the car's prominent placement of the infamous Confederate flag, an image of slavery […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: censorship, confederate flag, General Lee, racism, slavery

A Word on Behalf of the Idiots

January 20, 2019 by Randal

Note: the analysis of this article is based on outdated and incomplete information. For a fuller picture, please see my follow-up article here. Like the rest of the world, I was enraged as I watched footage of the students from Covington Catholic High School mocking and threatening Vietnam Vet and Omaha Elder Nathan Phillips. One […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: ethics, MAGA, racism

The Cross and the Lynching Tree: A Review

November 7, 2018 by Randal

Cone, James. The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2011). The next time somebody responds to the Black Lives Matter movement by saying “All lives matter,” you might want to suggest that they read black liberation theologian James Cone’s magisterial reflection on the abominable history of lynching in America. The year is 1918 when a […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: book review, ethics, James Cone, liberation theology, lynching, racism, review

Okay, so Laura Ingalls Wilder was a racist. Now what?

June 26, 2018 by Randal

I grew up reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books. (Not quite, actually. I stopped reading them when I was about 12, but they were definitely pivotal in the early years!) The same is true of my daughter. Like me, she developed her love for literature beginning with that little house in the big woods. So we were […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Martin Luther King Jr., racism

Is it wrong for First Nations people to refer to non-indigenous people as “settlers”?

September 18, 2017 by Randal

A few days ago a group of First Nations people were riding the LRT (mass transit) to the National Gathering of Elders at the Edmonton Expo Centre when they were stopped by transit police and asked for proof of purchase. The encounter that ensued has resulted in charges of racial profiling. While I don’t think the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: discrimination, first nations, racism

Against Trump’s Absurd Moral Equivalence Thesis

August 16, 2017 by Randal

Today Donald Trump presented a moral equivalence thesis according to which protesters against racism are as culpable for violence that resulted in Charlottesville as the neo-Nazis, the Klan, and white nationalists whose views they were protesting. Unfortunately, some Christians have also courted this notion of moral equivalence. Consider, for example, this tweet from Michael Brown: […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Donald Trump, racism

Politically Incorrect Roadside Signs

December 10, 2016 by Randal

The other day I found myself wasting time at a site that has a wealth of old photos of the city I grew up in (Kelowna, BC) as well as the surrounding environs (the Okanagan Valley and southern British Columbia). I especially enjoyed the politically incorrect roadside signs and I’ve selected two for your viewing […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: ethics, political correctness, racism

Reflections on a racist Starbucks cup

February 11, 2012 by Randal

In the last month there have been several instances of racism against Asian-Americans which have gained national headlines. We’re not talking about lynchings here but rather racial slurs finding their way into mundane economic exchanges.  The most recent occurred when two men ordered drinks at an Atlanta Starbucks. Instead of putting their names on the cups […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: racism, Starbucks

Reflections on Jewsday: A Response to Paul Manata

January 20, 2012 by Randal

Paul Manata’s most recent attempt to deflate my critique of the Cleveland Indians branding has left the fact that I’m a Canadian in the background and shifted to focus on a reductio.  Paul points out that cultural stereotypes proliferate about Italians. So then if stereotypes about Indians are “bad” presumably then stereotypes about Italians are bad […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: prejudice, racism, stereotype

If people are not offended then there’s no offense (and other terrible reasoning)

January 16, 2012 by Randal

Now for the next piece of Paul Manata’s reasoning. He begins: “American Indians in general are not offended. It’s only Activists. Liberal, leftist activists. It’s a voting block. The point is to make them feel attacked and under the gun. Then claim your political party will stick up for them.” This leaves me deeply puzzled. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Paul Manata, racism, Sports Illustrated

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