Another Black Man Has Been Shot

By Asher Witmer Culture & Politics

Another incident has happened that communicates to the black community their lives don’t matter, and the rest of us are nowhere closer to understanding why a man being shot in the back seven times by police communicates to black people that they don’t, in fact, matter.

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We’re Still Missing the Point of “I Can’t Breathe”

By Asher Witmer Culture & Politics

Until we’re broken over racial injustice to the point where we spend time on our knees weeping over it, until we can sit and listen to and allow our worldview to be shaped by our brothers and sisters of color, and until we can acknowledge that those feeling oppressed play a key role in explaining what justice looks like we are still missing the point of “I can’t breathe.”

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It’s Time for Whites to Grieve

By Asher Witmer Culture & Politics

Can we pause a moment and simply hear the cries of the people? Can we lay aside excuses for deflecting ownership of the sin of racism and simply sit with our black brothers and sisters in their pain, hearing the horrors they tried telling us about while we refused to listen?