First, KeithE I was not that upset with Sandy on this one, just faking it a little for the absurdity of the matter. I'm not quite Ed Pettibone yet; gettin there, but not yet.
But thanks for the link swap and share.
2) Wlliam, got some BBQ to do today so I will come backto this later. I agree with you Zimmerman to some degree was made into a straw man. He was unfairly demonized. But at this point the verdict, the trial is a distraction. I need to read the piece Bonhoeffer scholard Charles Marsh, Fisher Humphreys nephew, recommended yesterday but I think that is the point that summary piece make. Also Leonard Pitts make it about Fox News. And Otis Moss, not Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, but Otis Moss drives home; the Point that needs to be made to Hartwell Ga natice Mike Hubbard, the Speaker of the House of Alabama, who has a small fortune with the Auburn Network--see my blog at
www.foxofbama.blogspot.com -- and that is Stand Your Ground Laws have made this country a much more dangerous place for all races.
From there, and I apologize for speaking above my pay grade, good deal of remedial reading to be done. Again, not Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, but white folk like Mercer President Underwood and myself strongly recommend Harvey and Blum's The Color of Chris; and Harvey's Moses Jesus and the Trickster. You especially, Thornton, with a blog that Jerry Vines has been known to read ought to be reviewint these books by year's end.
The Color of Christ references Langston Hughes 1932 poem just after Scottsboro, Christ in Alabama, the "****** Jesus hanging on a Tree, bastard son" of a wayward woman. Google the deconstruction from the U of Illinois to whet your appetite.
More later. Do cross reference at the Covenant site for the Marsh link. His bio of DBonhoeffer should finally appear next Spring. No excuses for anybody who sees this post not getting their hands on a copy from interlibrary loan, and a good sitting at a barnes and noble soon as it gets out!