Dear Friends,           Black History Month this year coincides with efforts by the new administration to erase all government programs and references to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” claiming that they foster “illegal and immoral” racial discrimination--that is, discrimination against White people. The pretense is that these policies actually mark the realization of Martin Luther King’s “dream” of a country where all people will be judged “by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.”           In my recent conversation with Juan Floyd-Thomas about his new book Critical Race Theology, we talked about the fallacy of twisting King’s message to literally whitewash American history and deny the ongoing reality of racial oppression. Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed by the Nazis, notably...