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Do You Want to Be Lied to, or Not?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on September 18, 2020. Posted in General, Racism to Reconciliation. 10 Comments on Do You Want to Be Lied to, or Not?

They use it as an asterisk. Like when the governing commission is forced to add an explanation to a sports stat. Babe Ruth and Roger Maris or whatever. The sports hero is the greatest ever…except with this teensy asterisk caveat. The same treatment is granted to the white men who established America. Historians, politicians, we white people—we...

The Bilbo Dilemma

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 8, 2013. Posted in General. 4 Comments on The Bilbo Dilemma

My mother used to tell the story of a relative who served on a delegation from the Mississippi State Legislature that went to France to pick out a statue for a famous Mississippi politician. It was an honor to be in the Mississippi Legislature, an even greater honor to be selected for the statue delegation: traveling overseas, entrusted to purchase...