February 1, 2024July 6, 2024 JMRL Blog “There it was again: conscience. Lincoln believed he was acting according to motives higher than the merely political.”
February 3, 2022July 10, 2024 JMRL Blog “They did what other human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left.”
July 30, 2021July 10, 2024 JMRL Blog “Niceness does not break with white solidarity and white silence. In fact, naming racism is often seen as not nice, triggering white fragility.”
July 28, 2021July 10, 2024 JMRL Blog “Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not begin or end: they merely change form.”
September 16, 2018 JMRL Blog “I was born with the devil in me . . . I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”
July 2, 2018 JMRL Blog “People who see themselves as victims sometimes don’t notice when they become oppressors.”