photo james trosh conversations campfire wandering winding organically threads attach word idea makes start completely forget began earth ended love love types campfire conversations emerge time time blogs blog surprises energizes time happened comments post notre dame obama inconsistencies wrote post call worked alma mater invited george bush speak commencement pooh-poohed catholics worked obama speaking notre dame ultimately wondering thought good idea invite presidents spoke deeply-held beliefs talk debate emerged comments politics religion stereotypes post briefly mentioned upset president bush speaking calvin college reinforced stereotypes christians blackwasp mention good friend church zeroed sentence responding part believed calvin's invitation bush reinforced stereotypes base level understand clarification assuming reinforce stereotypes speaking fortify stereotypes mis-perceptions accepted part culture listing primary stereotypes response wrote bringing reinforcing stereotypes non-christians told amazed relieved find stand matters stereotypes alive quiet reinforces response blackwasp entire conversation thoughts jumped check comments brings stereotype confront simply mentioning stereotypes conversations beneficial stereotypes partially stop referencing lived lives what's give stereotypes smackdown thinking questions bubbled surface shine light existing good automatically good multiply shine light picture solidarity important valuable calling people harming greater broader good question applies calling people part group self-identify you're christian woman you're black you're part family origin effective fight stereotypes active approaches necessarily subtle passive approaches easily argue instance simply president simply small task barack obama fight stereotypes surrounding black people speaking directly stereotypes single effective counteract stereotypes we're people slightly greatly approaches gravitate approach feel calling blackwasp problem angle good-cop bad-cop combo sort thing world combating problems 