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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Visionaries,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>I have never read Doug Wilson’s <i>Black and Tan</i> which was clearly an attempt to reframe the plagiarized disaster of <i>Southern Slavery As It Was</i>. I have no desire to read his poorly reasoned arguments and barely concealed self aggrandizing prose. However, tonight after reading <a href="https://twitter.com/MoscowIdahoUSA?ref_src=twsrc%5etfw"><span style='color:windowtext'>twitter comments</span></a> about <i>Black and Tan</i>, <span style='color:#1F497D'> I asked </span>a friend to send me the entire text which was at one time - but apparently no longer - available <a href="https://kevinjthompson.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/free-e-book-alert-black-and-tan-by-doug-wilson/"><span style='color:windowtext'>free</span></a> on the internet. It is easy to understand why Doug chose his son Nathan to write the preface. It’s a cow plop effort even for him, and he wisely lacked the courage to ask anyone else to do it. If Nate’s writing style and grasp of history is a reflection of the education he received at Logos and NSA I can only conclude that the people who pay to send their children to these educational abominations’ should be ashamed of themselves for their parental failures. <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Rose Huskey<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>BLACK & TAN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Douglas Wilson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>A Collection of Essays and Excursions on Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in America<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Canon press Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Published by Canon Press P.O. Box 8729, Moscow, ID 83843 800-488-2034 | <a href="http://www.canonpress.com"><span style='color:windowtext'>www.canonpress.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Douglas Wilson, Black and Tan: A Collection of Essays and Excursions on Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in America Copyright © 2005 by Douglas Wilson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Printed in the United States of America. Cover design by Paige Atwood. Scripture quotations are taken from the Authorized (King James) Version.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Foreword .................................................................................vii<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Foreword by Nathan Wilson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>“I drank my first black and tan in Annapolis, Maryland, my father’s hometown. It was poured in the American style, Bass Ale on the bottom and then Guinness, poured carefully over a bent spoon to avoid breaking the layer and mixing the two beers. Across the Atlantic, those tending bar generally chuck the spoon and let the beers blend. The taste is more interesting, but the look less artistic. Regardless of technique, the combination is a lovely one. In America, our particular blend of races came about through great hypocrisy, in both the North and South. The slave trade was nothing but wickedness. To be a little simplistic: the South wanted to end the trade, but not the slavery, and the North wanted to blame the South for providing the market for the kidnapped souls the North was importing. The whole history and categorization of our various racial hypocrisies is not something I am capable of exploring here. God judged both North and South with the bloodiest of our wars. God judged this nation, and it is impossible to deny that He has continued to do so as we reap various fruits of sinful segregation and of the equally sinful attempts at expiating our guilt through statist salvation. There is much to lament on the subject of race relations, but I find that God has not only judged us. He has blessed us as well; He has blessed all our races, for example, with a great mixed beer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>I am quite grateful for my own ethnic ancestors, in all their Celticness, but I am also grateful that some of their contributions are where they are: behind me, across the ocean, safely tucked away in graves. They have contributed an attitude to America, a fighting spirit and an individualism that have been both a blessing and a curse. But there is nothing in the idea of a “pure” Celtic America that I love. Bass Ale is fine enough, but I have no desire to go back to drinking it isolated safely in its own glass. Growing up my father’s son, I was taught the love of many things. I can think fondly of ancestral plaid and bagpipes, but my affection for blues and jazz runs just as deep or deeper. I am extremely grateful to have grown up in a culture influenced and altered by the juxtaposition of races, and even more so because I believe my children and grandchildren will grow up in a culture where that juxtaposition has been more fruitful, and the mutual influences increased. I love peanut butter. And lest anyone accuse me of being trite or superficial in my praise, it is hardly superficial to me. I would guess that roughly seventy-five percent of the cells that my body has produced over the course of my life have been made out of George Washington Carver’s magical invention. I think that percentage is higher for my father. I love the music that came out of the South and the effect it has had on our national personality. I love athletics and the unique personality they have gained by the mixture of races; segregated basketball was about as interesting as a PTA meeting. Jesse Owens showed up Hitler’s lie, single-handedly, when nations, theologians, and philosophers failed—and he wore our flag. Some would want deeper cultural acknowledgments from me than this, again accusing me of being superficial, but the trouble is that such things only appear to be superficial. I have been shaped by these things, as we all have. Our culture has been impacted in deep and profound ways by such juxtapositions and will continue to be. So the curse connected to slavery, the sin of our white fathers against our black fathers, has come back to bless us. It has shaped every aspect of what it means to be American, and is part of why being an <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>American is still worthwhile. The blessings have always been there, for the culture, for the Church, and some of the greatest of white sins have come in the arrogance of trying to reject those blessings. But this is not simply a blind or romantic view of race. There has been a great deal of hypocrisy and faithlessness in our racial history—and the traffic has gone both ways. Hatred and bitterness has played a major role for many on both sides. But beyond that, in humility and faithfulness, comes the blessing of the God of paradox, the God who raises the dead. A once white country is no longer white, having been broadened and strengthened by the victims of its white fathers. And as for those first slaves: their descendants, while still sometimes held down by their own sins and residual paganism, not to mention the sins of others against them, have been blessed by being part of this culture. This is why a secular approach to racial reconciliation will always be doomed. Throughout our history, God has brought many blessings to the blacks as well, at the center of which was access to the gospel. The tragedy of pagan Africa was more significant than the tragedy of Southern slavery. In Christ, whites are a blessing to blacks. In Christ, blacks are a blessing to whites. In our history, there has been more than a little of this. But apart from Christ, our races are simply a snare and temptation to one another. So I look forward to the final America, to the final Church, the Church that spans cultures, nations, and ethnic boundaries. I look forward to descendants as affected by a Christian Africa as by a once-upon-a-time Christian Europe. When it comes to culture, pour me a black and tan into the glass of the Christian faith. No need to use a spoon.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>