Bernard LaFavette, voting rights advocate, non-violence theorist, & teacher has died. Another mighty oak has fallen whose legacy will fertilize the aspirations of future generations rising from the forest floor. May his memory be a blessing.
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The #NaziHeaven group chat for conservative students might make Hitler Youth blush: 💯s of Jew, Black, & women hating slurs. This should be a wake up call for a #GOP that has repeatedly hit the snooze button of self delusion on the hate within.
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Bernard LaFavette, voting rights advocate, non-violence theorist, & teacher has died. Another mighty oak has fallen whose legacy will fertilize the aspirations of future generations rising from the forest floor. May his memory be a blessing.
What do the Iranian parents of those bombed school girls think about an American president leading the war and choosing their leader?
What do the Iranian parents of those bombed school girls think about an American president leading the war and choosing their leader?
I gave a MLK speech at FIU —just as Gov. DeSantis & many in the GOP were closing Fl. college diversity offices thru the “war on woke.” They waged war on those simply talking about racism, thereby enabling & excusing racists. This beast of bigotry was bred & fed by policy. @apnews.com @reuters.com
It is well worth a few moments to read what presumably well educated students think about their fellow citizens. Read the filthy slurs and ask yourself: is it enough for colleges to just prepare students for work while leaving them unequipped to live as moral citizens?
To say Democrats also have racists in the ranks (true) does not excuse a whole GOP campaign strategy of homogenized hate—WITH racialized voter suppression.
I gave a MLK speech at FIU —just as Gov. DeSantis & many in the GOP were closing Fl. college diversity offices thru the “war on woke.” They waged war on those simply talking about racism, thereby enabling & excusing racists. This beast of bigotry was bred & fed by policy. @apnews.com @reuters.com
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The #NaziHeaven group chat for conservative students might make Hitler Youth blush: 💯s of Jew, Black, & women hating slurs. This should be a wake up call for a #GOP that has repeatedly hit the snooze button of self delusion on the hate within.
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
They cut Meals on Wheels for seniors, doctors for the VA, and food for American children - but send billions of taxpayer dollars to the Middle East for an unnecessary war of choice.
THE BIBLE, BOMBS & WAR
Don’t blame Mathew, Mark, Luke, & John when Trump, Netanyahu, Hegseth, & Rubio are responsible. This war is constitutionally unauthorized not God ordained.
North Carolina students are mobilizing after Republicans moved to limit their ballot access.
The removal of early voting sites on several campuses, including the nation’s largest HBCU, has sparked organizing efforts as young voters rally to protect their right to vote.
THE BIBLE, BOMBS & WAR
Don’t blame Mathew, Mark, Luke, & John when Trump, Netanyahu, Hegseth, & Rubio are responsible. This war is constitutionally unauthorized not God ordained.
WORDS & LIVES
ONLY those responsible for defending America will pay the price for this irresponsible rhetoric. Every word of every speech needs to be spoken as though a life is at stake. The lives of American troops and civilians hang in the balance.
The Dept. of Education elevates Booker T. Washington to say Black people must “go along to get along“ & promotes #CharlieKirk to say they are “never good enough.” Accommodationalism and anti-diversity all in one 1940s style authoritarian mural. Sinister subtlety in the messaging.
WORDS & LIVES
ONLY those responsible for defending America will pay the price for this irresponsible rhetoric. Every word of every speech needs to be spoken as though a life is at stake. The lives of American troops and civilians hang in the balance.
The Dept. of Education elevates Booker T. Washington to say Black people must “go along to get along“ & promotes #CharlieKirk to say they are “never good enough.” Accommodationalism and anti-diversity all in one 1940s style authoritarian mural. Sinister subtlety in the messaging.
Long before anti- #DEI wimp warriors learned to ban #BlackHistory , father & son Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. and Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. served this nation bravely. Nobody gave these men made up titles, fake awards, or promotions over pushed aside overqualified overachievers.
alt-text: father and son, and future generals, Benjamin 0. Davis, Sr. and Benjamin 0. Davis, Jr. shake hands at Davis Jr.'s graduation from U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1936 #BHM
Davis, Jr. was collectively shunned for 4 yrs at West Point (usually a punishment) but graduated with honors
In the past year, metro Atlanta saw more evictions than all of New York City—despite having *one-quarter* the renters.
Multiple Atlanta apartment complexes averaged an eviction a day.
"The numbers are mind-blowing," said Grace Hartley of Princeton's Eviction Lab.
The list of products includes: Cheerios, Pringles, Advil, Benadryl, Aleve, Cream of Wheat, Airheads, Ramen, Maruchan, Jolly Rangers, Takis, Gatorade, Coca-Cola, Ortega Taco Seasoning and many more.
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Long before anti- #DEI wimp warriors learned to ban #BlackHistory , father & son Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. and Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. served this nation bravely. Nobody gave these men made up titles, fake awards, or promotions over pushed aside overqualified overachievers.
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As a student minister, I 1st learned about Tourette’s right after being called N*GGER by an unhoused White man. My White minister supervisor said “he’s not racist he’s sick.”Years later, I STILL think he was not as racist or as sick as the nation that taught him the word.
"Doctors once falsely believed that Black people had a higher pain threshold—many people still do."
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Whenever I walk past the beautiful shops in Copley Square Boston, I still think about the ugliness of that word, that day, and that moment—decades later. At this point, the memory is not so much a wound, but a treasured scar of resilience.
I also learned thru experience as hard and as sharp as broken glass, IF you take our forgiveness for granted, it only means you take our pain for granted as a given. Doctors once falsely believed that Black people had a higher pain threshold—many people still do.
I will never forget how dirt humiliated I felt being called N*GGER in downtown Boston in the middle of a crowd—on my first day on the job as a student minister to soup kitchens & shelters. I later learned about forgiveness & racism theologically as a seminarian.
Whenever I walk past the beautiful shops in Copley Square Boston, I still think about the ugliness of that word, that day, and that moment—decades later. At this point, the memory is not so much a wound, but a treasured scar of resilience.
I also learned thru experience as hard and as sharp as broken glass, IF you take our forgiveness for granted, it only means you take our pain for granted as a given. Doctors once falsely believed that Black people had a higher pain threshold—many people still do.
