AidsandWrightRiggins

Mayor of Collegeville, PA, seeking to exhibit and extend goodness by practicing hospitality, inclusive community, and justice in our day and age.

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[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

My heart is broken tonight. Joe Madison, the Black Eagle, was a living legend who lifted millions with his voice and his vision. He lifted me as a mentor and friend, and someone who held me accountable as we should hold all of our elected officials.

I will miss him dearly.

My thoughts are with his wife, Sharon, and his family.

[Phil Williams @PhilNvestigates]

Do Tennessee lawmakers not know that taxpayer-funded school vouchers are already going to Islamic schools TODAY?
If you are going to fund religious schools, you CANNOT limit it to Christian schools!

[AidsandWrightRiggins @Aidsand]

Dear Christians, Cease-Fire Is Not Surrender https://t.co/bftFfRlfg2 via @Sojourners

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@RepJoeWebster i will join yiu there.

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As Mayor of Collegeville Borough I condemn hate and acts of violence. I stand with the members of the Khair Community grieve this assault on this sacred site.

[AidsandWrightRiggins @Aidsand]

A Chief of Police in Maine says that "the treat is over" as they've found the dead body of the suspect that has killed 18 and injured countless others. No, the threat will not be over until we outlaw weapons of war in the hands of civilians.

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

When I was a little boy, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack, and thousands of U.S. servicemembers perished. As a nation, we were stunned. And we vowed to strike back. Revenge was understandably on everyone’s mind, including many Americans of Japanese descent who opposed the emperor and were peaceful and law-abiding U.S. citizens and residents.

In its zeal to exact that revenge, however, the U.S. government overreacted, out of fear and bigotry. They targeted everyone who happened to look like the people who had carried out the attack. Those of us who had done nothing wrong were forced to pay the consequences for the decisions of others far away and disconnected from us. We were interned for years, in open-air prisons, while America went off to fight Japan, Germany and Italy.

It’s so important that we carry the lessons of the past through to today. Merely because one group commits atrocities and acts with depravity does not mean vast hundreds of thousands or even millions of others should be lumped together with them and made to suffer. We must never paint with the brush of justice and retaliation too broadly, or the toll of human suffering will rise immeasurably.

[Tim Wise @timjacobwise]

5/ The lives of Jewish Israelis and Palestinian Arabs are of equal worth. Their rights and dignity are too. Neither Hamas's actions or history, Israel's response to them, the treatment of Gazans for years, or the laws of Israel itself act as if that is true. That's the problem.

[Tim Wise @timjacobwise]

4/ The point being, to claim Hamas's actions were unprovoked is historically nonsensical. Two things can be true at once: an action can be morally and strategically awful, and yet stem from other actions that were also morally and strategically awful...

[Tim Wise @timjacobwise]

3/ particularly when other avenues appear closed and nothing else has worked, and as they watch more and more of their land and liberty taken, and public opinion increasingly calling for their complete expulsion or extirpation (which it has been in Israel for some time)...

[Tim Wise @timjacobwise]

2/ This is not to justify what Hamas just did; not in the least. It is simply to say that even if something is not morally justified it can be practically predictable. People will often do destructive things, even self-destructive things, to gain freedom and opportunity...

[Tim Wise @timjacobwise]

1/ Israel's premise was that it would be a refuge where Jews would be safe. Yet today it is far less safe for us than anywhere on Earth. Who could have known that taking other people's land, discriminating against them and treating them all like terrorists might not work out?...

[Leslie D. Callahan @fifthpastor]

Christians, Palestinians and Jews are human beings, not pawns in your end-time fantasies. Jesus doesn't need genocide to hasten or facilitate his coming.

[rolandsmartin @rolandsmartin]

So y’all can unanimously pass a damn dress code but can’t pass the George Floyd Justice Act and the John Lewis Act. Y’all are pathetic.

[AidsandWrightRiggins @Aidsand]

Grateful that Los Angeles and Los Angeles County declared Sept 22nd “James Lawson Day” in recognition of Lawson’s commitment to nonviolence and its impact on the Freedom andCivil Rights Movements in the United States. Happy 95th Birthday Rev. Lawson!