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[Dr. Derwin L. Gray @DerwinLGray]

Mr. President,

please do better. Your post is a mockery of the sacred faith of billions of people who follow Jesus. The resurrection of Jesus ushers in New creation, love, forgiveness, grace, mercy, and peace.

Respectfully,

Rev. Dr. Derwin L. Gray

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

I wish Biden would reflect on this debate performance and then announce his decision to withdraw from the race, throwing the choice of Democratic nominee to the convention. Someone like @gretchenwhitmer or @SherrodBrown or @SecRaimondo could still jump in and beat Trump.

[American Solidarity Party 🧡 @AmSolidarity]

We’d like to thank @CNN for taking the time to broadcast two of the strongest possible arguments in favor of electoral reform and alternative voices in American politics.

[Darvio Morrow @DTheKingpin]

Obviously this is an overly dramatic simplification but I get why he thinks that. They didn’t solve racism, that’s silly. There was still racism in the 90s. The difference was there was a consensus on what the goal was. Most people understood that the goal was unification and there was a conscious attempt to move towards that goal. Today, even the post-civil rights era consensus is breaking down, which is disturbing to me.

Our conversations have gotten coarser, the dividing lines have gotten stronger, and today social media (which didn’t exist in the 90s) rewards and elevates the loudest and most divisive voices on both sides of the racial divide. Growing up, I did not personally experience racism until I was almost an adult. The 90s were a different time. But it wasn’t because racism was defeated (lol), it was because people were trying harder. On both sides. People preached tolerance and acceptance, words that are foreign today. Tolerance didn’t mean that I had to agree with everything, it meant that I accepted you for who you are in spite of that. That was encouraged. Today, the extremes on BOTH sides discourage tolerance.

There were also more opportunities to interact with one another. We still lived closer to each other more then than we do now. We consumed similar content, there was a constant cultural exchange. Today in the world of media fragmentation those opportunities are harder to come by.

Today, you have on one side a school of thought that says that the only way to heal is to humiliate white people and another side that is actively seeking to tear down things that were put in place to help Black advancement, the very things that were encouraged during the romanticized 1990s. They’re actively dismantling the post civil rights era consensus. I say no to both.

This nation tears down every opportunity to unite with one another and then we wonder why we’re so divided. There are massive accounts on this platform right now that are connected to known white nationalist and supremacist groups, and they’re constantly polluting the discourse with lies and hate. There are also people on the other side who have, as my former mayor said, “used the legitimate concerns of the oppressed to promote their politics, not to assist the oppressed. They just use the oppressed for their own benefit.”

Instead of addressing grievances, everybody wants to be aggrieved. People aren’t encouraged to fix problems anymore, just to complain about them. We are encouraged to divide, we are encouraged to separate, we are encouraged to attack one another. I still want to solve the problem. I’m still in the justice business, not the vengeance business. I don’t ignore real racism (and I never will), but I don’t hate white people (and I never will). They’re not my enemy, and I don’t believe it’s in our interest to view them as such. I still support the post civil rights era consensus. I still believe in the goal

[Makoto Fujimura @iamfujimura]

Wow…what a sequence with Hayao Miyazaki asked to comment on A.I. generated animation!

Rough translation:

Host A.I. animator (excitedly) “as you can see, A.I. allows creation of the grotesque that human imagination cannot create!”

Miyazaki “I have a friend who is disabled…he struggles to even raise his arm…I think of him trying to high touch my hand…”

“This ‘creation’ has no respect for pain and sufferings of people… It dehumanizes (anyone can go ahead and create something grotesque), and it’s an utter travesty against humanity. I do not want anything to do with it!”

Host (everyone) : ……………

@alissamarie @iamculturecare @AcademyKintsugi

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

We made this pre-election, thinking that we’d never have to release it. After the events of today, we decided to post, #Bloodlines

[chinatwit @chinatwit2008]

@SHoddeMiller Ouch! (And, thank you)

[Dr. Derwin L. Gray @DerwinLGray]

Slavery is evil. There is no benefit.

"I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of the land. Between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference." ~ Frederick Douglass

[Isaac Adams @isickadams]

"I think one thing we'll realize when we get to heaven, is how hard we were on each other."

- Sam Emadi

Thankful the Lord brings these words to my mind often.

[chinatwit @chinatwit2008]

https://t.co/T3xDIftqQE

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Rejecting faith, Americans "have sought out new sources of meaning and identity, and the majority of us have settled—in a moment of catastrophic national stupidity—on politics as the substitute for religion, family, and community."

By Kevin Williamson: https://t.co/2QjeEKaUxG

[American Solidarity Party 🧡 @AmSolidarity]

Morning thoughts from Wendell Berry.

[American Solidarity Party 🧡 @AmSolidarity]

“Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one's first feeling, 'Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that,'

[Orion Donovan Smith @orionds]

“Why has Mann-Grandstaff become the most dangerous VA hospital in the country?” @RepRosendale asks in @HouseVetAffairs hearing.

• Avg. patient safety reports per year at Spokane's VA hospital since Oracle Cerner launch: 500+
• Avg. at non-Cerner hospitals: 55

[Wyss Foundation @WyssFoundation]

📢 More info on the exciting conservation news out of Australia about Macquarie Island.

https://t.co/w0WZPvUVFj

[chinatwit @chinatwit2008]

#Conservation of small islands of #biodiversity is good and necessary. For the preservation of life on this planet we also need to pay way more attention to the spaces where everyday human life happens.

[Sophia Lee 소현 @SophiaLeeHyun]

I was Zooming w two Ukrainian pastors yesterday. Both are pastors in Kherson. Convo was heavy—ministry is exhausting & challenging during wartime.

But at the end, they asked about my baby. And instantly we all lit up. We laughed & shared stories & spoke w so much warmth.

[Jason Ginsburg @Ginsburg]

@timkellernyc You're right that Twitter does not reflect America as a whole, for good or ill.

More info here from Pew here: https://t.co/YgXelIkeRM

[American Solidarity Party 🧡 @AmSolidarity]

What you end up with is a marriage of the worst tendencies of left and right: misguided claims about individual autonomy end up empowering a penny-penching state to literally kill the poor.

[Ed Stetzer Live @EdStetzerLive]

We've slowly traded rich relationships for the ease of technology. But it's made us more lonely, anxious and disconnected. @edstetzer talks with author Andy Crouch about ways technology can serve us, rather than master us. Tomorrow @MoodyRadio 11 am CT https://t.co/sJ1ib0XjOF