Daily Archives: Monday, 6 April 2009

Was he Mixon a victim of racial injustice? Did he have to live through an intolerable hell the likes of which I am cannot even begin to imagine? I assume that both questions are to be answered affirmatively. A hero, though, is not merely someone for whom these claims are true. Rather, a hero is someone who with grace and majesty transcends this very reality. The hero is not someone who is merely carried along by the current of the cesspool of her or his reality. Rather, the hero rises above it. Lovell Mixon is not a hero. No amount of name calling or moral posturing will make it the case that he is. Continue reading →