Justin and Stephen talk with history prof. James Willetts about how Americans remember racial history and the creation of hero narratives. They also discuss graduation, role changes, distress in the Psalms, and the complex reality of responding to racialized tragedy. Resources from this episode: • Atlanta Mayor calls Arbery’s killing a lynching • Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen • Sundown Towns by James Loewen • America’s Original Sin by Jim Wallis • God’s Politics by Jim Wallis
Music by Josiah Enns. Photo by Preston Goff on Unsplash
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