Tag Archives: Slavery

The Weight of These Robes: Cap and Gown Address

- The Cap and Gown celebration is a moment of triumph for our seniors, but the weight of these robes is the obligation of our Trinity education to exercise leadership for good.
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Racism and Catholic Imperatives

- Cardinal Wuerl of the Archdiocese of Washington has issued a remarkable pastoral letter calling on all Catholics and Catholic institutions to renew our determination to confront racism and promote human dignity.
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Don’t Know Much About History

- We should teach the truth about American history so that we do not repeat the terrible mistakes of our past. Any compromise on racism repeats the original mistake of the Founders who could have --- but did not --- abolish slavery.
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Charlottesville: American Tragedy Redux

- Racism, white supremacy, sporting of Nazi symbols --- we must confront the hatred and insist that our national leaders speak and act unequivocally to renounce association with the evil forces that have long plagued American history.
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American Exceptionalism

- Our national shame of violence, racial hatred, and murderous attacks on police. America is exceptional but for the wrong things.
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