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...what Jackson omits in his discussion of the drug problem is just as revealing. He almost never mentions drug rehabilitation programs, or even the concept of rehabilitation. If anything, he's more likely to rely on something like conversion, in which the sin is confessed, forgiven and then washed away...
...presidential aspirants the white Baptist--television evangelist Pat Robertson--is tops. Robertson is right on every "biblical, family, moral freedom issue" save one. The preacher misses a perfect score because he favors imposing "sin taxes" on those who indulge in vices. Though arguably laudable, this is nonetheless an endorsement of higher taxes, something God and Biblical Scoreboard oppose...
...mature Carver doesn't have the same confidence in irony. The mature Carver admits his sin straight out; he almost implies that the power in his writing derives from that guilty, original theft. He begs for forgiveness, but he won't take it back or change his ways...
...story: strange fruit hanging from a poplar tree, the night riders in sheets come North now. Was hers not the primal American tale of violated black innocence, of white bigotry that wears a badge and goes unpunished? Did it not reverberate with all the horrors of America's original sin? Did it not recapitulate, precisely, the original drama of abduction and violation that brought black Africans to America in the first place? Seized in the innocence of childhood, knocked unconscious, transported, held against her will (enslaved), violated, degraded, treated like trash that ends up in a trash...
...threat. There was talk that white youths might invade the township and attack the visitors. Smith regarded the possibility calmly. "Some people say they may beat us up. Maybe, for the sake of justice, whites must experience what it means to be beaten up." The sense of sin to be expiated is never far from Smith's mind. "When I walk around the township," he says, "I can only cry, 'My God, what have we done to these people? What are generations after us going to say?' That they don't take up a stick or an iron and knock...