Author: Forgiven

The Magic Negro and Other Hollywood Myths

That’s where Black characters are brought in to serve as noble, wise, many times suffering, “guides” to specifically help the main White character understand or transcend some deep metaphysical concept, trauma...

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Barack Obama Is Not A Christian

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried. – GK Chesterton “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your...

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Responsibility Or The Loss Of Credibility

     One of the many things that trouble me about the wealthy in particular and the Republicans in general is their apparent lack of shame for their blatant hypocrisy. For decades the mantra of the wealthy and...

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I Just Can’t Put My Finger On It

Lois Coar, the mother of two grown children, supported Mitt Romney this year and is undecided for November. She cannot see voting for Obama — “not because he’s black, but I just can’t put it in...

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