bobcampbell

The best way to change the world is to change a neighborhood. The best way to change a neighborhood is to live there.

[bobcampbell @bobcampbell]

@PastorTrey05 I'm in Fort Myers today, after moving him here this weekend. I'm honestly wondering why people move here. Even the cold tap water in the sink and toilet is generating a little steam. 😳

[bobcampbell @bobcampbell]

I could only think of @bethallisonbarr when I saw this ad.

[Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9]

A giant rainbow over the entire Chicago skyline to end Saturday. #weather #news #ilwx #chicago

[bobcampbell @bobcampbell]

Check out this review on The Dyrt! https://t.co/Qt0m3EskPg

[bobcampbell @bobcampbell]

@KaitlynSchiess @BrazosPress Can you imagine the controversy 50 years later from slaveholders? 🤣

[Matt Tebbe @matttebbe]

Try to rate limit this 🔥 I dare you

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

"I'm sorry, there's just no way to build protected lanes in less than 10 years.
Oh, protected car lanes? Give us a week."

https://t.co/PwALQfobeX

[bobcampbell @bobcampbell]

@KatelynBeaty The Gods Must Be Crazy, which was a fantastic movie, but the African setting was beautiful.

[Daniel Moser @_dmoser]

Reprogrammed information panel in Brooklyn 🇺🇸

https://t.co/fdEIUnncsk

[Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer]

This fact makes GOP heads explode: Every single Trump state, including FL & TX, is a welfare state subsidized by taxpayers in blue states. Every red state receives more federal $ than they contribute. Every one. All of them. Rely on majority Dem taxpayers for their state spending

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

An SUV at typical urban speeds exerts 100-300 times the force a helmet can absorb. NHTSA is the only agency with the mandate and authority to regulate automobiles, Rather than use their power to build a safe system, we get PSAs for foam hats and shiny shirts.

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

Today is the anniversary of the electric-chair execution of George Junius Stinney, Jr.

He was 14 years old, and weighed 95 pounds, when he was executed in the state of South Carolina by electric chair.

(and he was declared innocent 70 years after his execution).

Here's a little more about that horrific event on June 16, 1944.

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[from my book EXECUTING GRACE]

George Junius Stinney Jr.

Have you ever heard that name?

George Junius Stinney Jr. was the youngest person ever executed in the United States; he was fourteen. He walked to his execution by electric chair carrying a large copy of the Bible under his arm.

He was accused of killing two white girls in the Jim Crow South. His trial lasted less than two hours. No witnesses were called, no defense presented. There is no record of a confession or of any physical evidence. And the all-white jury deliberated for a mere ten minutes before sentencing him to death.

In one of the quickest executions in history, George Junius Stinney Jr. was killed eighty-one days after being arrested. One of his last meals was ice cream with the officers who would later kill him. His skinny five-foot-one, ninety-five-pound body was so small that his head didn’t reach into the metal helmet of the electric chair, and so he had to sit on the Bible to make it work. He sat on the Bible. When the first jolts of electricity hit him, he flinched and the head mask fell off, revealing the terror in his eyes and the tears streaming down his cheeks. Only after several more jolts of electricity did he finally die.

I was so disturbed by George’s story, when I first encountered it, that I couldn’t stop reading about him. I thought maybe his execution had happened in the 1800s, but it was in 1944. Some of his family is still alive. Part of me wishes his execution had occurred hundreds of years ago so that I could write it off to those less civil days and dismiss it by thinking we’ve come a long way since then.

But no: it was 1944.

The case of George Junius Stinney Jr. is one of the greatest travesties of justice in American history. But his story raises many important questions. And while it is extreme, it is not exceptional. There are many George Stinneys.

Some things have changed since 1944. But what’s also striking, as we will see, is how little has changed since 1944.

*** In 2014, a South Carolina judge posthumously exonerated George Stinney. Seventy years after his execution, Judge Carmen Mullins threw out his murder conviction.

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[Danté Stewart (Stew) @stewartdantec]

The Trump presidency did not ruin America or Christianity. It just exposed a long history that much of Christianity in this nation was more committed to white supremacy and those who would accomplish white Christian power than they were to Jesus, love, justice, and equality.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

Today I preached a message on the Church and Culture Wars. These are a few signs we are caught in it’s grip.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

🤣🤣🤣

[bobcampbell @bobcampbell]

I had to make a 90 second video for a grant application for my nonprofit. Never done one before. This is what I put together this weekend with a borrowed GoPro, iPhone, and my MacBook. ZION Development Tour of Midtown https://t.co/Pk2VYAgi9q via @YouTube

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

Took my girls to see Little Mermaid.

When King Trident realizes Ariel is gone and says, “What have I done?” my 5yo said, at top volume in a silent theatre, “You didn’t do anything, that girl just don’t listen!”

🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

[bobcampbell @bobcampbell]

@eji_org We toured the Jackson plantation a few yrs ago. 2 days later we visited the Lincoln museum. Talk about a difference! The former barely talked about his presidency, the second talked about it a lot.

[bobcampbell @bobcampbell]

@DoorDash you deactivated my son's account and he can't access his 1099. He's tried calling and the help can't, um, help. What's he supposed to do? #whyIdontusedoordash