Archive | December, 2010

Watch Night Services (from the Archives)

Back in the relatively early days of this blog, my friend Marsha Joyner guest posted a wonderful reflection on Watch Night Services in African-American culture. I still get a lot of search engine traffic to it every year around this time. If you haven’t read it before, I invite you to read the whole thing. [...]

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Haley Barbour’s Disingenuous Comparison

UPDATE 12/29: Justin Elliott spoke with Steve Mangold and was able to elaborate on Mangold’s letter. As you may recall, when Haley Barbour was asked by the Weekly Standard what it was like to grow up in Yazoo City, MS “in the midst of the civil rights revolution,” Barbour said, ““I just don’t remember it [...]

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Haley Barbour’s Raid on Historical Memory

(An update follows this post.) Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is at it again. Seems like every time Barbour pops up in the news these days he’s busy whitewashing Mississippi’s racist past. The latest came my way yesterday via Digby and Joan McCarter at Kos. In an interview with the Weekly Standard, Barbour had the audacity [...]

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Why DDoS Attacks for Wikileaks Are Not Civil Disobedience

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust. [...]

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