I don’t think one can ever really know what it’s like to be another person. I might utterly despise someone like former President Bush, but I really don’t know what it’s like to be him. That being said, it’s very true that he absolutely doesn’t know what it’s like to be me, poor, or a…
Category: Sunday
Sunday’s Sermons: Why Jesus Would Support Unions
If you don’t know by now, Wisconsin’s unions (except for the police unions which supported Walker and are exempt from his changes) are in a fight for their life against Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker. It won’t surprise anyone reading a site called Alabama Liberal that I’m firmly on the side of the unions, but it…
The New Religious Right, Not Really That Religious
In the 1980’s, the Reagan Revolution swept the country. It was an awkward marriage of fiscal conservatives trying to deregulate or privatize as much as they could get their hands on (no matter the long term economic costs) and tricking dirt farmers in Kansas that they were holy rollers in order to do it. This…
The Black Elephant in the Room and the White Lion on the Rooftop: Why People Won’t Say They Hate Obama Because He’s Black but Will Say They Hate Him Because of His “Religion”
“I am uncomfortable with a black President.” You won’t ever hear these seven, direct words uttered out loud about Obama, but you will hear people say everything except it. I have heard people hate him. I have heard he’s not really black (although he’s black enough for the same white people to never let him…