"Everything I heard today is true. But, because of racism I suffered in my youth, I cannot turn against Obama." According to conservative writer Lloyd Marcus, the preceding sentiment was uttered by his father, a black man, after the elder Marcus attended the first Black Conservative Press Conference and heard some damning truths about Barack Obama and the Democrats. The elder Marcus exhibits a common phenomenon. We see it in Christians who are hurt by a clergy member and who then reject Christianity, women who are hurt by a man and then embrace anti-male feminism along with rejecting marriage, and in many, many other situations. And it's often seemingly impossible to change such people's minds, and for good reason: you don't have to change their minds. You have to change their hearts. And emotional blocks don't yield to intellectual bulldozers. Clearly, the simple but generally resisted solution is forgiveness. Anger is like darkness: the more there is, the less you can see. When...(Read Full Post)