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What did I dream?

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

Mark Fuhrman’s death is a reminder that racism dies one racist at a time. America will never heal until the systems, mindsets, and people who built careers on dehumanizing Black people are gone. He didn’t just wear a badge, he embodied the racism Black people have endured in this country for generations. May history remember him and eternity accommodate him accordingly.

[T and T @theerrorterm]

@prodnose I love it. Blows away the Ramones and the Dolls.

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

White MAGA evangelicals have found a new gaslight. Now they want to blame civil rights organizations for manufacturing racism.

As if America was not racist before the NAACP existed. As if white supremacy needed a nonprofit grant to build slave ships. As if the Klan was waiting on a donation from the SPLC before it burned crosses. As if Jim Crow needed a press release. As if lynch mobs needed a fundraising campaign before they burned down Tulsa and Rosewood.

Who funded the transatlantic slave trade?
Who funded American chattel slavery?
Who funded the genocide of Indigenous people?
Who funded the rape and breeding of enslaved Black women?
Who funded lynching?
Who funded segregation?
Who funded redlining?
Who funded convict leasing?
Who funded mass incarceration?
Who funded police brutality?
Who funded the theft of Black land?
Who funded the erasure of Black history?

It was not civil rights organizations. It was America, the government, banks, white churches, corporations, courts, universities, white mobs, white politicians, and white pulpits preaching a slaveholder’s gospel.

Civil rights organizations did not create racism, they documented it, challenged it, exposed it, sued it, organized against it, and forced America to look in the mirror.

And that is what MAGA cannot stand. They don’t hate the so called manufacture of racism, they hate the exposure of racism.

Because if racism is made up, nobody owes repair, nobody owes repentance, nobody owes justice, nobody has to return stolen land, nobody has to pay reparations, and nobody has to dismantle the systems that still reward whiteness and punish Blackness.

This is not a serious argument. It is white grievance propaganda with a church fan in its hand. America was racist before civil rights organizations existed.

America was racist when Black people were property. America was racist when Black people were lynched for voting. America was racist when Black children needed federal troops to enter schools. America is still racist when they try to ban the books that tell the truth.

You do not get to burn the house down for 400 years and then blame the smoke alarm for making noise.

Talbert Swan

[T and T @theerrorterm]

@NFLNumbersGuy Great list, but I'd like to add Dave Jennings.

[Rick @iamslickrick01]

We already have one

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

I cannot, and will not, take any Black person seriously who says Donald Trump isn’t racist or asks, “how is he racist?”

At this point, that’s not ignorance. That’s willful blindness. That’s intellectual dishonesty. That’s a conscious decision to ignore a mountain of documented evidence that spans more than 50 years.

We’re not talking about rumors or feelings, we’re talking about federal housing discrimination cases, calling for the execution of the Central Park Five, birtherism against the first Black president, referring to African nations as “sh*thole countries,” telling Black members of Congress to “go back” somewhere else, attacking DEI while dismantling opportunities for Black people, attempting to erase Black history, claiming the civil rights movement caused “white people to be treated very badly,”  celebrating in awarding, white supremacists, pardoning insurrectionists who attempted to overthrow the government and overturn Black votes, and now pushing policies that are actively removing Black professionals—especially Black women, from positions of influence under the false banner of “meritocracy.”

And somehow…you’re still confused?

No. You’re not confused, you’re committed to pushing a false narrative.

Because the truth is, admitting Trump’s racism would require you to confront what you’ve aligned yourself with. And for some, proximity to power, validation from whiteness, or partisan loyalty matters more than truth, dignity, and the lived reality of your own people.

If you can look at all of this, and still ask, “how is he racist?”—you have already disqualified yourself from serious conversation.

This isn’t about political differences. This is about basic discernment. And if your discernment is that broken, your opinion on anything of substance is compromised.

I don’t debate denial. I don’t argue with willful ignorance. And I refuse to take seriously anyone who has made a choice to ignore what is plainly evident.

At this point, it not a lack of information…it’s a lack of integrity.

[Debbie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Morrissey_is_OK]

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[T and T @theerrorterm]

@Morrissey_is_OK Where's Kerching Kerching and Lester Bangs?

[T and T @theerrorterm]

@GeorgeBray I love Amazona. Great cover by tight bands. I wish every album had a cover song.

[T and T @theerrorterm]

@vampcide Michelle

[T and T @theerrorterm]

@ceofjohnlennon @johnlennon @yokoono Yoko looking fine.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose fiery speeches and populist vision made him a charismatic champion of civil rights, died at 84. https://t.co/wo441DYhB9

[T and T @theerrorterm]

@AlphenMatthias @Evan64m Love you too, Matthias.

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

In 1964, The Beatles played for the first time in the United States.

Here’s the complete concert. Enjoy this masterpiece.

[T and T @theerrorterm]

@iamslickrick1 Consequence of being solo artist/band leader. Nobody else with authority to cancel bad ideas. Why Bob Dylan has more skippable tracks than the Beatles. Downside of bands is they can quash individual creativity.

A few weak songs worth the price of unfettered Prince.

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

There is no real difference between the religion of the Ku Klux Klan of1926 and the Christianity practiced by white evangelicals in 2026.

Both despised Black people and other non-white communities. Both worked to rewrite American history to center whiteness and erase truth. Both worshiped a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, conservative Jesus who looks nothing like the Jesus of the Bible. Both weaponized religion to justify bigotry and exclusion.

Today’s MAGA Christians go even further. They support taking healthcare from those who need it most. They cheer the stripping of funding from programs that serve seniors, children, and the most vulnerable.

Just like the Klan before them they align themselves with political demagogues who advance a racist agenda.

Their religion has never been Christianity, It’s always been white supremacy.

[T and T @theerrorterm]

@mars23tele @FireWaterBreath Don't forget about Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. An outlier in EC's career and one of the greatest rock and roll albums. Unbelievable song writing, guitar playing and singing. That one contribution puts him in the pantheon.

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

Keith Porter was murdered by ICE on New Year’s Eve. His life mattered.

[T and T @theerrorterm]

@Smiths_history Never to be trusted...