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Sen. Mike Braun says interracial marriage legalization should be up to states, not federal gov't
Via: CB • Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto • 38 Comments • 5 Likes • 4 years ago
“Leaving the question of interracial marriage to the states,” Braun responded, “Yes.””
Was Senator Braun saying the quiet part out loud then, or is he LYING now? You decide. And what is wrong with his reply? Anything, in your opinion?
A White Supremacist Group Is Fighting For Ukraine, Can We Trust Them? | by Rebecca Stevens A. | ILLUMINATION-Curated | Medium
Via: CB • Christian State of Mind • 34 Comments • 4 years ago
“When they learned about the fate of Black African people stuck in Ukraine and at borders to neighboring countries, like Poland and Romania, two...”
JAMESTOWN How America Invented Race | The History of White People in America
Via: CB • Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto • 207 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
“Race: A social construction like Sant(a) Claus. Back in the day y'all were English or Scot, Protestant or Catholic, land-owning or not!”
Image credit: https://medium.com/black-history-month-365/the-origins-of-whiteness-8e4b5916096f This will be a new series on the 'history' of race in the U.S.
The Doctrine of Discovery: Why it still Matters Today - United Church of Christ
Via: CB • Christian State of Mind • 34 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
“As they reached new shores, the sailors would plant the standards of the Catholic Monarchs, . . . and would read the following notice to the...”
Within fifteen years of Columbus' first voyage, the Spaniards who continued to cross the Atlantic in search of new lands to subdue had worked out to their own satisfaction a little ritual for assuaging whatever dim objection their strangled consciences might have voiced about adventures in...
The need to protect the internet from 'astroturfing' grows ever more urgent | Internet | The Guardian
Via: CB • Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto • 30 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
“George Monbiot: The tobacco industry does it, the US Air Force clearly wants to ... astroturfing - the use of sophisticated software to drown out...”
This is an old concept that is still very real today and going on onlline! Watch out!!! You may be exhausted talking to phantoms, bots, and more.
Calvin Robinson & Robyn Henderson-Espinoza: Has woke theology gone too far? - YouTube
Via: CB • Christian State of Mind • 33 Comments • 4 years ago
“Anti-woke Anglican ordinand Calvin Robinson engages with Transqueer Latinx theologian Dr Robyn Henderson-Espinoza on whether 'woke' theology is...”
This video is very useful, and very long. For myself, I got i through it by upping the "speed" in (wheel) setting. It reminds me of a recent 'discussion' I had with an NT member that went 'nowhere.' But, here is the topic and the message. I hope you join and tell me what you think about any...
Alabama Neighborhoods With Raw Sewage Flooding Spark Racial Equality Investigation
Via: CB • Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto • 227 Comments • 3 Likes • 4 years ago
“Residents in Lowndes County, and in other rural areas in Alabama, are victims of inhumane living conditions; 40 percent of homes in the county have...”
Lowndes County's Raw Sewage Problem | ACRE (Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise)
The GOP's 'Critical Race Theory' Fixation, Explained - The Atlantic
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“How conservative politicians and pundits became fixated on an academic approach”
Researchers have now accumulated ample evidence that racial covenants in property deeds and redlining by the Federal Housing Authority—banned more than 60 years ago—remain a major contributor to the gulf in homeownership, and thus wealth, between Black and white people. By Adam Harris
Why Republicans Are Turning Against Free Speech - The Atlantic
Via: CB • Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto • 106 Comments • 4 Likes • 4 years ago
“The American right has lost the plot on free speech. The right is now in the process of unlearning liberty.”
As the Republican Party evolves from a party focused on individual liberty and limits on government power to a party that more fully embraces government control of the economy and morality, it is reversing many of its previous stances on free speech in public universities, in public education,...