Brooke

She/her, black feminist killjoy, #adoptee #Exmo #BLM #LGBTQ accomplice

[Stacker @stackerco]

An example of how the LDS (Mormon) church Gospel Topic Essays are disingenuous.

The race and the priesthood essay uses this Brigham Young quote:

“At the same time, President Young said that at some future day, black Church members would 'have [all] the privilege and more' enjoyed by other members.”

But if you follow the footnotes you'll see the context of the quote, which changes it entirely:

"Now I tell you what I know; when the mark was put upon Cain, Abels children was in all probability young; the Lord told Cain that he should not receive the blessings of the priesthood nor his seed, until the last of the posterity of Able had received the priesthood, until the redemption of the earth. If there never was a prophet, or apostle of Jesus Christ spoke it before, I tell you, this people that are commonly called Negroes are the children of old Cain. I know they are, I know that they cannot bear rule in the priesthood, for the curse on them was to remain upon them, until the residue of the posterity of Michal and his wife receive the blessings, the seed of Cain would have received had they not been cursed; and hold the keys of the priesthood, until the times of the restitution shall come, and the curse be wiped off from the earth, and from Michael's seed. Then Cain’s seed will be had in remembrance, and the time come when that curse should be wiped off." (Speech by Governor Brigham Young in Joint Session of the Legislature, Feb 5, 1852)

I don't see any other way to look at this except to see how this essay is being deceptive using a carefully selected phrase from Brigham's speech to reconcile it with a future lifting of the ban.

Do you?

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[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Racism is not a difference of opinion.

And kindness does not = racial justice.

There are lenders who will hold the door open for a Black person, then deny that same person a loan because they’re Black.

[abby govindan @abbygov]

I enjoyed the completely fictional dystopian unrealistic movie Hunger Games Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes especially the part where the adults in power were debating whether or not it was moral to slaughter children in large numbers as a response to a violent political uprising

[The Road Jess Travelled @JessPected]

The claim that men don't protect women because feminism is frankly laughable. Men have never protected women. Never. The protection racket is all promise (and threat), no protection, to extort submission from women. Feminism didn't make men cowards, it acknowledged it. 1/

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐓
246 years of slavery
1619-1865

99 years of Jim Crow Laws
1865-1964

86 years of lynching
1882-1986

14 years of Civil Rights fight
1954-1968

Police Brutality
-To Date

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

Slavers used Christianity to try to “tame” the enslaved. To make them believe slavery was God’s will, rape and brutality were what the enslaved deserved.

European settlers called Indians "savage” because they didn't live the way Europeans did.

The indigenous culture was crushed. They were slaughtered and forced to relocate.

The United States committed atrocities against Africans, African Americans, and Native Americans in the name of Christianity.

There were lynching picnics. Souvenirs taken from mutilated Black bodies.

This is American history. Hiding it gives racists cover to recommit atrocities of the past. #FreshWords

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

Today in 1946 WWII veteran Maceo Snipes was shot in his back by the KKK the day after he became the first Black person to cast a vote in Taylor County, Georgia.

After he was shot, Mr. Snipes walked three miles to the hospital with his mother. For six hours doctors left him waiting and bleeding. By the time he was seen, he needed a blood transfusion. The doctors said the hospital had no “black blood.” Snipes died two days later.

This is why I will vote in every election. The day I stop voting is the day I stop breathing. #FreshVotesBlue #BlackHistoryWithLana

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

This is Charles & Willa Bruce. In 1912 they bought prime beachfront land in Manhattan Beach, LA County and built a Black resort community. In 1924 the county took it and refused to pay its value. In 2021, worth $72 million, it was returned to their descendents by Senate Bill 796.

In 1912, Black Californians Charles and Willa Bruce bought a small slice of Manhattan Beach real estate for around $1,200. They built a resort for fellow Black families in the area who found themselves unwelcome at Whites-only beaches, even renting out bathing suits and selling snacks — and they were almost immediately subjected to racist attacks. Everyone from neighbors, the police, the city council, and even the Ku Klux Klan tried to close the beach down. The city imposed 10-minute parking limits near the beach to try and discourage visitors, and finally in 1924, the Manhattan Beach city council just seized the property entirely, offering the Bruces a fraction of their asking price. Today, the stretch of beach is worth around $20 million — and Los Angeles County voted to finally return it to the Bruces' descendants in 2021.

[Ameshia Cross @AmeshiaCross]

Garth has been an advocate for civil rights for decades. Don't let him being a giant of country music fool you. Remember "We Can Be Free"...he wrote that civil rights anthem after the LA riots...Brooks was cut out of the Super Bowl in '93 because
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[Mormons Speak @mormons_speak]

🧵1, What will get a person permanently excommunicated from the #LDS Church? Bishops raping children? Murder? Incest? No. In the case of Lavina Fielding Anderson, it is documenting eccesiastical abuse.

[Ami scrubs to the elbow 🌊⚖️🏳️‍🌈✡️🇺🇦 @AmiThibedeau]

@realTuckFrumper Utah, meet Karma.

[Michele Merritt, Ph.D. @Skyphly]

Woman 1 on facebook, big mad that woman 2 who was supposed to give her newborn baby to woman 1 changed her mind after, you know, she gave birth and realized how utterly effed that would be. Here is what she said...1/

[liladoptee ( she/they ) @liladoptee]

Why do I feel like I’m fully responsible in maintaining relationships? Oh yeah it’s called being adopted🫠 #adopteetok