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September 6, 2023 by Miguel De La Torre
Genocide (genos-race/nation + cide-killing) is a nomenclature coined by Raphael Lemkin, a jurist who served as an advisor to the U.S. Department of War during the Second World War. The term helped describe the six million Jews murdered and the near extinction of the Roma people…
August 23, 2023 by Miguel De La Torre
“God is good!” Can a brother get an Amen? Not so fast. Maybe God is good because we only read those biblical passages which present us with a benevolent deity. But for those of us who have carefully read the entire text, a disturbing depiction…
August 9, 2023 by Miguel De La Torre
The standards in Florida for teaching middle schoolers about African American history require that they learn “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefits.” High schoolers are to be taught about the “violence perpetrated against and by African Americans” during the…
July 26, 2023 by Miguel De La Torre
“Freee-domm!!!” At the top of his lungs, the so-called “QAnon Shaman” – also known as Jacob Chansley – walked the hall of Congress and breached the Senate chamber with his fellow “patriots” during the January 6 insurrection crying for freedom. In the name of this…
July 6, 2023 by Miguel De La Torre
Historians are adept at naming spans of time. We have the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the Atomic Age, for example. I wonder how future generations will make sense of these times in which we live, in which many barely subsist. No doubt…
June 23, 2023 by Miguel De La Torre
The Southern Baptist Convention met in New Orleans last week and declared women lacked the necessary chromosome to pastor a church. Bless their hearts. Some male allies rushed to post pithy memes expressing allyship to demonstrate their wokeness. Others sought to raise the consciousness of…
June 1, 2023 by Miguel De La Torre
A meme started to appear on my social media toward the end of April. It simply read, “May she rot in Hell.” It took me a few minutes to realize it was referring to Carolyn Bryant, the grocery store proprietor who falsely accused a 14-year-old…
April 5, 2023 by Miguel De La Torre
What do you do when the hymns we sing reinforce a theology which is, and continues to be, detrimental to the marginalized, those who liberationist theologian Jon Sobrino called “the Crucified People”? “Would you be free from the burden of sin? There’s power in the…
November 2, 2022 by Miguel De La Torre
he people have gone mad. There really is no other way to explain it. Why else would they vote for an individual or party which has declared itself to be fascists while wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross? Can they not see that…
June 1, 2003 by Miguel De La Torre
2012 Dec 31, 2012 Leap Off the Fiscal Cliff Dec 27, 2012 When Food Oppresses Dec 10, 2012 Binders of Hispanics Nov 9, 2012 Tea Party Cost GOP Nov 5, 2012 What Election Day Won’t Fix Nov 1, 2012 Why No Moral…
