Big Questions

Is the United States a racist country, or is it a democracy with racism embedded within and throughout its borders?

What has been and continues to be the cost of racism and prejudice for our country and ourselves?

Everything and all of us suffer from racism.

How do we battle racism without harming or killing peaceful and innocent protesters, and, well-meaning police trying to keep the peace?

Is defunding police a cost-effective, feasible alternative to reforming within the existing policing system and culture? If not, then how do we effect positive change on both sides of the citizen-police contract?

Is there a klansman in your family tree?

• Is the foundation of our racism deeper than we realize?
• Does racism still exist in your small town?

Is racism predominantly instinctive (nature) or learned (nurture)?

People at birth are inherently good.

Why are hate crimes increasing in U.S. cities?

• Has the bigoted rhetoric and policies of the Trump administration intensified bullying, discrimination, and even violence toward minority communities?
• Can a White Nationalist (Trump) be our moral leader?

What Would Jesus DO?

Is it not the grand irony of our times that the very people who insist that Jesus and the Bible must be the ruling principles of our culture and nation in all affairs, are also accomplices to the spreading of hate and violence and racism by their affiliation and support of Donald Trump?

They forgot to ask themselves, What Would Jesus Do?

Shame on them for their cowardice and hypocrisy in the face of the worst bully and liar we’ve ever experienced in the Whitehouse. No matter what evangelicals say, Trump is not the CHOSEN ONE!

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 The Laura Ingraham Black Athlete Manifesto

SHUT UP, and
 step out of the car,
put your hands behind you,
 get out of my gated community,
 get in line,
 go do the (essential) work,
 stand at attention,
 salute,
 march,
 go to war,
don't forget to vote
 stay in your lane,
 get off your knee and stand up,  and
 dribble, 
 otherwise,
 LEAVE!

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Big Picture

Big Picture / Human Society / Social Organization & Change / Racism

hatred, prejudice, injustice, honor, heroism

• america’s best-loved novel: To Kill a Mockingbird Lee
• anti-racism, semitism, fascism:
  • resist racism every day with love: This Is the Fire by Don Lemon
  • Protect the Culture
  • Stamped Kendi
  • Torch Network
  • anti-semitism: (((Semitism))) Weisman
• apartheid: Born a Crime Noah
• Christian nationalism and isolationism:
  • America First
  • The Rise of Christian Nationalism in America
• consequences: The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
• dignity of all races: Cry, the Beloved Country Paton
• eugenics: Trump’s race horse theory
• freedom: The Underground Railroad Whitehead
• jim crow laws:
  • reconstruction: The Second Founding by Eric Foner
  • mobility is essential to freedom: Driving While Black by Sorin
  • Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
  • The Negro Motorist Green-Book Green
• native americans: Rising Voices by Arlene Hirschfelder
• nature vs nurture: A Class Divided, Then and Now by William Peters
• police militarization
  • Rise of the Warrior Cop by Radley Balko
  • How White Power Movement Coalesced After The Vietnam War
• prejudice and persecution:
  • LBGTQ: Welcome to Chechnya
  • cities: Do the Right Thing
  • Man on Fire
  • Biased Eberhardt
• reparations:
  • Reparations Comeuppance (sp)
  • Reparations are Past Due by Jeremiah Chapman
• TV: United Shades of America
• white power and KKK:
  • Hatemonger by Jean Guerrero
  • Bring the War Home Belew
  • Documenting Hate: Charlottesville
  • The Turner Diaries MacDonald
  • Rising Out of Hatred Saslow
  • Life of a Klansman by Edward Ball
  • Black Klansman Stallworth

also

Eventually, We Will All Be Melting Pots of Each Other