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Football and Father Luke

Posted on July 3, 2020July 28, 2020 by jeff

Football and Father Luke Good intentions, when acted upon rashly, often lead to bad outcomes. Those who intend to purge racism from America’s institutions should not drive from view or from acceptable public discourse instances in our history in which racism was beaten back, just because those instances necessarily require the depiction of racists who lost….

In (Partial) Defense of Thomas Jefferson

Posted on June 23, 2020July 28, 2020 by jeff

The other day, a group of people toppled a statue of Thomas Jefferson from its perch in front of Jefferson High School in Portland. The white man interviewed by Willamette Week in the article linked above explains that he participated in bringing down the statue because he wanted to support people of color, and didn’t think it was appropriate for…