My African American studies professor won’t let us refer to slaves as “slaves” but instead “enslaved people” and I think that alone is very powerful. It recognizes that it was our people’s circumstance rather than identity
We have so many people who lack even the most basic, elementary school-level science literacy in this country, who cite "decreased oxygen intake" or "carbon dioxide retention" as a reason it to not wear a mask in public.
#wearyourmask#DoBetter#PublicHealth#TrustANurse
Some evangelicals think that public religious gestures (e.g. Trump's holding the Bible) will halt secularization. They won't. They ENACT SECULARIZATION: they put the sacred to profane use that's contrary to the character of the sacred. That's desecration and hence secularization.
If your white kid made an adorable sign proclaiming black lives matter but you opted out of your neighborhood predominantly black school then you are not teaching your kid that black lives matter.
“He that is angry without cause, sins. But he who is not angry when there is cause, sins. For UNREASONABLE PATIENCE is the hotbed of many vices, it foster negligence, and incites not only the wicked but the good to do wrong.”
John Chrysostom
1. As we see multiracial crowds fighting for police reform, I keep thinking of how so many white liberals react when policymakers attempt to integrate their children's schools and gifted classrooms, or construct affordable housing in affluent neighborhoods.
This scene from #FamilyMatters is just as relevant today as it was back in 1994. It's difficult to stomach that we are in the midway point of 2020 and racism is still this big of an issue in society. #BlackLivesMattter
The President of the United States tear-gassed peaceful protestors in order to clear the way for a useless photo-op outside the White House—just after vowing to activate the military against our own people.
Lives and our democracy are in danger.