Rethinking Racism: Part 6, Civil Rights … and Beyond

Donald Armstrong
7 min readMar 30, 2022

Critical race theory … Whoopi Goldberg suspended for comments about Jews and race … once again we are arguing about racism … welcome to the sixth in an eight-part series on how we understand America’s original sin. The series will be published on eight successive days. In Part 6, we track the rise of the abolitionist movement through the Civil War, the effort to grant full civil rights to freed

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Donald Armstrong

Moved by a conviction that we humans--gifted with reason--can do so much better than we are; asks how both politics and faith can better serve humanity's needs.