Perhaps There Is No More Dangerous Place

There Are Folks Who Burn The Koran And Hold Signs Saying, "god Hates Fags" And All Sorts Of Sick Things - And They Often Hijack The Headlines With Hatred. We Know That Is Not What Christ Was Like.

Look Through The Prayer Books. You'll See Lots Of Dates. You'll See Names Of Native Americans Remembered. This Was An Open-sourcing Project Among So Many People.

And Since We Are People Of Expectation, We Are So Convinced That Another World Is Coming That We Start Living As If It Were Already Here.

When We Really Began Executions Rather Than Lynchings, Black Folks Were 22% Of Our Population In 1950, For Instance, But They Were 75% Of The Executions. Now, African-americans Are 13% Of The Population, But They're Still Almost Half Of Death Row, And Over A Third Of The Executions. 34% Of The Executions Are Black Folks. So, Like, I Mean, Things Like The Race Of The Victim Is One Of The Biggest Determinants Of Who Gets Executed.

I Found That The Death Penalty  -  and I'm Not A Hot-button Issue Person, You Know, I'm Not A Single Issue Person  -  but What I Think Drew Me To The Death Penalty Is Because It Raises Some Very Deep, Fundamental Questions Like: Is Anybody Beyond Redemption?