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☆ Opinion | On Turning Black
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Esau Mccaulley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Rather than condemn his party’s increasingly troubling language on the topic, Mr. Trump took the opportunity to question Ms. Harris’s racial identity. “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage,” he said. “I didn’t know she was Black, until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. Ms. Harris graduated from Howard University, a historically Black university, and she is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, a historically Black sorority. Does Mr. Trump really expect interracial people to deny half of their families?

Persons: Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, ”, Rather, Trump, “, Harris Organizations: National Association of Black Journalists, Howard University, Alpha Kappa Alpha

As an Anglican clergy member, I have prayed for political leaders as a regular feature of my life. Each Sunday, at the church I attend with my family, we have a moment set aside to remember those who have political power. I have prayed publicly for George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Prayers at political conventions feel different. Mixed in with the cascade of praise for the candidate, prayers at these events can take on the feel of a religious veneer for certain policies.

Persons: George W, Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joe Biden

☆ Patriotism Means Telling the Truth About Our Past - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Esau Mccaulley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Patriotism did not bring my grandfather to the Army recruiter’s office in 1956. He wanted a better life for himself and saw the Army as a way to make it happen. A sepia-toned photograph of him in his uniform still hangs proudly in his bedroom in Huntsville, Ala.For my grandfather, military life was not without challenges. After this tense and even dangerous exchange, the officer addressed them respectfully — a small triumph that my grandfather never forgot. I asked him why he continued on and he replied, “I guess I loved America more than I thought.

Persons: “, ” Organizations: Army Locations: Huntsville, Ala, America, Russia

☆ Parents Can Counter the World’s Cruelty With Joy - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Esau Mccaulley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As a kid I longed to join him on his journeys and discover something of the world beyond Huntsville, Ala., where we lived. That failure, and the addictions of his that defined much of my childhood, gave me an education of a different sort. Now that I am a father, I struggle with how much of that hard world to reveal to my sons and daughters. Parents of children in Gaza and Ukraine do not have the luxury of deciding whether to tell their young ones of evils done and all the good left undone. During dinner my family and I have talked and prayed about war, poverty, racism and injustice.

Locations: Huntsville, Ala, Gaza, Ukraine

☆ Trump’s Bible Misunderstands Christianity - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( Esau Mccaulley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States, who weeks ago started selling shoes, is now peddling Bibles. For example, according to a promotional website, it’s the only Bible endorsed by Donald Trump. This God Bless the USA Bible, as it’s officially named, focuses on God’s blessing of one particular people. Whether this Bible is an example of Christian nationalism I will leave to others. It is at least an example of Christian syncretism, a linking of certain myths about American exceptionalism and the Christian faith.

Persons: Donald Trump, It’s, Lee Greenwood, James, —, it’s Organizations: Republican Locations: United States, Independence, American

☆ How D.E.I. Efforts Can Help Minorities Flourish on Campus - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Esau Mccaulley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Like many African American professors, I teach at a predominantly white institution (Wheaton College) and live in the largely white small city where it’s located, outside Chicago. When people think about the difficulty of being Black in largely white spaces in America, they tend to picture overt racism. While diversity, equity and inclusion efforts have their flaws in content and implementation, one of their unsung values is that they can help reduce this kind of strain on Black faculty members and students on majority-white campuses; more diversity can help ease our sense of not belonging. Despite the ongoing hysteria around diversity and hiring in higher education, Black faculty members are shockingly uncommon — only 6 percent of professors in this country in 2021. Black faculty members at largely white schools can be subjects of scrutiny based on assumptions that our race rather than our talent won us our positions.

Organizations: Wheaton College Locations: it’s, Chicago, America, Wheaton

☆ Why I Am Still a Christian - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Esau Mccaulley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Just as our bodies develop and change, so can our relationship to things spiritual, leading us sometimes to set aside organized religion. For African Americans, in particular, adult faith is complicated by the way certain understandings of Christianity were used to justify our ancestors’ enslavement. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and Richard Wright, often had very conflicted relationships with Christianity if not hostility toward it. The Black literary canon is a beautiful thing, a hard-wrought wonder. Maybe it started when “master’s preacher” told the enslaved that God destined them to be docile and obedient.

Persons: “ wokeness ”, Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, “, ”, Christ

☆ The Half-Truth of America’s Past Greatness - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Esau Mccaulley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

People unfamiliar with the idea of a racial map may have been surprised by Black responses to Jason Aldean’s country song “Try That in a Small Town,” which became a hit this summer. I wonder how often vigilante groups were formed to protect Black Southerners from harm rather than inflict it upon them. According to Mr. Aldean, it is simply about the traditional values of small-town America. Do we discover it during the first centuries of the Republic when slavery was the law of the land? The small-town song, in the end, is about a return to a glorious past that existed only for some.

Persons: Jason Aldean’s, Aldean, he’s, Jim Crow Locations: ”, America, Republic

☆ Why Racist Violence Keeps Happening - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Esau Mccaulley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Anti-black racism and white supremacy are frequent topics of research in history, law, anthropology, economics, sociology and religion. Racism resides in the mind, the heart, twisted imaginations and long-festering resentments that surge in times of perceived loss of power. Addressing anti-Black violence would require that we take seriously the disease of racism that has infected our Republic since its founding. You can close all the doors and shut the windows, but the truth will seep in through vents and chimneys. Americans must let the truth into the house or it will suffocate itself on the toxic fumes of malice and false memories.

Persons: “, Du Bois, James Baldwin Locations: America, Republic

☆ The Hidden Value of Time - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Esau Mccaulley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

When I dreamed of my future, I never said that I wanted to be time wealthy. How do we get to that better future? We cannot show off time; it is a hidden currency, but it is of incalculable worth. Most studies show that the time parents spend with children has an outsize impact on their emotional health. Kids are better adjusted and perform better in school when parents are more involved.

Persons: I’d Organizations: Nike

☆ On the Fourth of July, Telling the Full, Flawed Story of America - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Esau Mccaulley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Douglass wondered what the enslaved might say if they were called from the plantations to reflect on themes of liberty, justice and equality. How might their words differ from the prose of the free orators normally asked to comment on American ideals? On Independence Day, what would those who lost loved ones in the Buffalo mass shooting have to say about justice in America? What musings about liberty could we expect from those who endure unjust sentencing or are pulled over for driving while Black? On the Fourth of July we are encouraged to unfurl our flags, belt out a rendition of “God Bless America” and grill burgers in humble gratitude.

Persons: Frederick Douglass, Douglass, Black Organizations: Buffalo, America Locations: America

☆ Father’s Day Used to Remind Me of What I Didn’t Have - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Esau Mccaulley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

If life is our most precious gift, then time — the chance to learn and grow — is a close second. Relocation for education and later for work meant that I often had to cheer and pray for him from a distance. This Father’s Day, I probably will get a present or two from our older children and handmade cards from the younger ones. It is a joy to receive those cards because they represent the full extent of her skills at the moment of composition. I had to begin with the skills I had and grow into a role that was more complex and difficult than I imagined.

☆ Opinion | Genuine Progress Is the Ability to Be Black and Stumble
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Esau Mccaulley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I must have overslept the day most Black people learned the electric slide in the early ’90s. In the time before YouTube, you had to master dances by waiting for the music video to be played on Black Entertainment Television, then practice the moves with your friends. That consensus provides a feeling of home and inspires nostalgia when you run across others formed by the same cultural artifacts. There is in truth no one Black culture, but Black cultures as varied as our hues. Beyond proper dance moves and cooking, there were African American entertainers who by virtue of their talents had a nearly untouchable status; they were Black royalty.

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