I’m a Nice White Person; What Does Charleston Have to Do with Me?

I had no intention of writing this post, though in the days following the Charleston shooting, I thought a lot about what I would say here, were I to write a post about racism. But honestly, after this post back in April, I vowed to take a good, long hiatus from controversial issues here on the blog. As the be-all and end-all of controversial issues, I had no intention of writing about race in this space.

But then Harry changed my mind. Harry is the minister at First Baptist Church here in...