21 Unwritten Rules That People Of Color Follow Every Day

Via: CB  •  Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto  •  86 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  2 years ago

“When road tripping, every Black person knows not to stop in a rural area for gas or a pee break if you can help it, especially at night.”

Alabama Neighborhoods With Raw Sewage Flooding Spark Racial Equality Investigation

Via: CB  •  Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto  •  227 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  2 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

Via: CB  •  Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto  •  80 Comments  •  4 Likes  •  2 years ago

“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  •  2 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,...

Sen. Marsha Blackburn criticizes 1965 Supreme Court ruling on birth control access

Via: CB  •  Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto  •  76 Comments  •  7 Likes  •  2 years ago

“U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn called the 1965 Supreme Court ruling legalizing access to contraception "constitutionally unsound."”

OKAY: The POLICE TALk

By: CB  •  Friendly relations  •  79 Comments  •  8 Likes  •  2 years ago

“"The last thing I saw on him was a gun."”

TODAY, as I departed from my local area Circle K convenience store, something quite interesting and unique occurred. Parked next to my car in the lot was a police SUV and coming around from the driver side was this camo-apparreled young officer who (actually) nodded to me first as he moved on by...

Donald Trump Is Above the Law. Period - Raman Media Network

Via: CB  •  Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto  •  60 Comments  •  6 Likes  •  2 years ago

“Donald Trump Is Above the Law. Donald Trump has no respect for any law and he is behaving as a dictator.”

WHY? Why is this permitted in congress, in court, in American society? Effectively, Donald J. Trump 'waylaids' a pandemic to the tune of initially thousands of deaths and has not offered a basic apology for even one dead American. Keep in mind, President Trump 'killed off' our National...

Civil Rights Songs and Speeches 2022

By: CB  •  Christian State of Mind  •  59 Comments  •  4 Likes  •  10 months ago

“I just can't give up now!”

This is my ode to Dr. Martin L. King and I will be adding to it the rest of January '22. Hopefully, you will too!  We've come a long, long, way - yes, YOU have!

Billionaire Quits Mormon Church & Will Donate $600K to LGBTQ+ Group

Via: CB  •  Christian State of Mind  •  21 Comments  •  1 Like  •  2 years ago

“I believe the Mormon Church has hindered global progress in women's rights, civil rights and racial equality, and LGBTQ+ rights,"”

Religion has to "do" better than this.

GOP Governor Says It's Time To 'Blame The Unvaccinated' For Pandemic Surge [Continuation of]

Via: CB  •  News & Politics  •  93 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  3 years ago

“Gov. Kay Ivey also called out right-wing media disinformation about the vaccine.”

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