“There are some insufferable bores out there, and there are people who puff themselves up like a barn owl when it is ten below.”
Not Enough Money in the World
“You can’t hire enough cops to contain a nation of fatherless men.”
Which Is Pretty White
“Some men carry their sin in front of them like a shield, and others drag it behind them, like a rope. With some men, we see the consequences of the sin right away. With others, we don’t see it for a good seventy-five years, and even then there is debate among the learned. So Baltimore is not what happens when blacks govern themselves. Baltimore is what happens when anybody governs according to the pious platitudes of the whitest people in New England.”
Acceptable in Every Direction
“Too many trendy evangelicals, if politically correct sentiments were water, act like those long-range lawn sprinklers, the ones that have a 360-degree reach.”
We Don’t Want an Honest Conversation as Much as We Pretend To
“Everyone wanted to have an honest conversation about race. The difficulty is that in honest conversations about race, nobody is allowed to say anything that is true.”
Really Grand Inversions
“Anybody who expects due process to run smoothly with a mob outside burning the place down is someone who specializes in grand inversions.”
Bias and Bigotry
“When people make up their minds about a particular allegation based entirely on the color of the participants, they are establishing nothing other than their own disqualifications for having anything whatever to do with the justice system, or anything whatever to say about the future of race relations in America.”
Delousing the Rich
[Speaking of 1 Tim. 6:17-18] “Those who are privileged are commanded not to be haughty, and to use their position of privilege in the service of others. They are to share what they have, not as though they are trying to be deloused (in order to give the lice to others), but rather because they are grateful, and they want to include others in the blessing.”
Try the Mirror
“Whites must seek forgiveness from blacks (for their sins as biblically defined) and blacks must seek forgiveness from whites (for their sins as biblically defined). And if your reaction is defensive, seeing the need to seek forgiveness as a burden that only that other group has (whichever one it is), then congratulations—you are the problem.”
Invisiverses
“I have been in various forms of ’slavery controversies’ for at least a decade, and one of the most striking things about these controversies is the blithe disregard many Christians have for the blunt and very clear teaching on the subject in the New Testament. I have referenced a clear set of verses repeatedly, and over those years not one of my accusers has sought to engage with the plain teaching of the Bible. It is like I have been citing invisiverses.”