How white southern men use a set of over-simplified ideas about Robert E. Lee to avoid a reckoning with the true ideology of the Confederacy.
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Deconstructing the South, Part One: Stone Mountain
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Why does Stone Mountain come up over and over again for me when I talk about racism, oppression, and white privilege? And why does it cause such a visceral reaction among my fellow white southerners when I talk about it?
Read MoreConservative Christian David French (Almost) Says Something Important to Trump-Loving Evangelicals
Conservative Evangelical David French almost said something important to Trump-loving Evangelicals. Then he chickened out at the last moment. Join me as we dissect his essay (it’s been going around Facebook lately) and potentially piss off the few remaining Trump-lovers who haven’t blocked me on social media yet. The first in my series about the intersection of Southern Evangelical Christianity with politics, race, class, and culture.
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