In the past several months, I have been piecing together some thoughts on both the spiritual danger of hating the President, while necessarily resisting his policies, and the importance of cultivating empathy for him, even though he shows no empathy to anyone else. I have found myself hating him and taking a very dualistic approach towards him and his supporters, with little empathy for them. I will have to return and continue those semi-original thoughts, now with more fodder, as this past week has given us Charlottesville, Barcelona, and the ignorant responses of Trump to both attacks.
What the attacker and the white supremacist marchers in Charlottesville, what the attackers in Spain, what Donald Trump, and what even many of us on our most puritanical days have in common is: a lack of love, a lack of wisdom, and an inability to inhabit gray spaces. With that, I share the following pieces. Only two are strictly related to this past week, but all speak to some degree to this interior life, or lack thereof.
A. Life After Hate, full interview with former white supremacist, on Democracy Now! (1 hour, 7 minutes)
B. Where Does It Hurt? full interview with Ruby Sales, from On Being (52 minutes)
C. Living in Deep Time, full interview with Richard Rohr, from On Being (52 minutes)
D. I Voted for Trump. And I Sorely Regret It. Julius Krein, op-ed contributor, New York Times
E. And James Baldwin gets the final, brief word. (2 minutes)
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