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Old June 30th, 2015 #41
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Old June 30th, 2015 #42
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I see a lot of churches with the rainbow displayed outside of them which is why believers in human perpetuity should stop going inside.
 
Old June 30th, 2015 #43
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Ten days that turned America into a better place

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Some day, people are going to write books about what happened over the last 10 days in the United States. It began with a depressing reminder of what is, perhaps, the worst of America. A disturbed young man, armed with an easily obtainable and high-calibre handgun, shot down nine people in cold blood. It was a shocking act, but largely because Americans have become so inured to the daily carnage of gun violence that the only types of incidents that stand out are those that are uniquely horrific.

Of course, what made the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, so particularly notable was the where and why – a white gunman, nine African-American victims, a historic black church in the cradle of the former Confederacy. Dylann Roof’s crime was distinctively evil, but the sentiments underpinning it were depressingly familiar. They reflect the original and ongoing sin of this nation – the more than two centuries of mistreatment, prejudice and discrimination visited by white America upon black America.

But then something amazing happened. Practically overnight, America had a national epiphany. For decades, the Confederate flag, which has flown on the grounds of the state capitol building in South Carolina and across the south, became recognised for what it truly is – not a symbol of regional heritage, but a painful, modern symbol of racial exclusion.

Within days of the shooting, politicians across the Deep South couldn’t run fast enough to the nearest microphone or television camera to denounce a flag that a week earlier they would have self-righteously defended. Corporations from eBay to Wal-Mart quickly joined in, announcing their newfound realisation that the stars and bars causes pain. By the end of the week, there were serious discussions taking place in both north and south of removing all vestiges of Confederate reverence – statues to southern generals, schools and highways named after Americans who, at their core, were racists and traitors.
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These were largely symbolic acts, but in America, which has for so long denied the racism that is as endemic to our nation’s history as Mom and apple pie, it was a revelation. And the week was far from over.

What has always made America a great nation is that for all our many flaws, we are established on a creed, one that is perhaps the simplest and yet most powerful political idea ever articulated, namely that all men are created equal. Living up to that ideal has been America’s arduous journey for 240 years and at the end of these 10 days we got that much closer to it. On Friday, the US Supreme Court ruled that gay Americans have the same right to marriage as other citizens.

Indeed, in his majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy articulated in one sentence the best of America – the self-corrective nature of our democracy. “The nature of injustice,” he wrote, “is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning.”

Over the past several years, America has come to understand the meaning of freedom as it relates to gay people and, with a healthy majority now supporting the idea that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness means the right to marry whomever you love, the Supreme Court ratified this sea change. Consider that when Barack Obama finally endorsed same-sex marriage in 2012, only six US states allowed it. Today, it is the law of the land. Obama was late to the game, but to a large extent that it happened on his watch is fitting, because during his presidency America has moved closer to the more perfect union that he movingly spoke of on the campaign trail in 2008.

In the glow of Friday’s decision on same-sex marriage, it was almost forgotten that a day earlier the Supreme Court beat back what is likely the last judicial effort to topple the president’s signature healthcare plan, Obamacare. While Obama must share credit with Democrats in Congress, it is one of his signature achievements. It is a law that doesn’t just provide a means of buying health insurance, but one that lessens the economic anxiety on poor and middle-class Americans and begins the repair of this nation’s increasingly tattered and frayed social safety net. That these court decisions happened within 24 hours were fitting – progress on economic justice and social justice under a president whose very presence in the White House is a symbol of racial reconciliation.

Throw in the president winning free trade authority from Congress and that was a pretty good week for Obama.

But then he went to South Carolina on Friday afternoon to speak at the funeral of Clementa Pinckney, the pastor of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church and one of the nine people slain in Charleston. There, he delivered one of the most extraordinary speeches by an American president. It unblinkingly touched on themes of deep institutional and implicit racism in US society. But it was also a hopeful sermon on the concept of grace and sin that, in a distinctly American way, sought to find reason for optimism in the face of indescribable horror. Here was a black president, speaking to an overwhelmingly black audience in the raucous and welcoming venue of a black church with words that were withering in their honesty and rawness, but also grounded in the basic ideals of not just Christian theology, but America’s secular ideology.

In singing the words of the wondrous hymnal Amazing Grace, a song written by a former slave trader turned abolitionist, Obama reminded Americans of how we’ve fallen short as a nation, but also that the path to redemption and, in turn, grace is within our grasp.

Nations do not usually change course on a dime and one must be careful not to overstate what’s happened. But in the 10 days after a uniquely American tragedy, this diverse, rancorous, often conflicted nation became slightly freer, slightly more generous, slightly more cognizant of its past and slightly more progressive than it was before. To paraphrase vice-president Joe Biden, that’s a big deal.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...a-better-place
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Old June 30th, 2015 #44
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Confederate flag down, rainbow flag up: this is the American pride we've been waiting for

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This Pride Sunday, as the world celebrates rioters at the Stonewall Inn here in New York who fought back against police brutality and helped advance the cause of personal liberty, the citizens of the United States have something to believe in again.

Here we have an America where, yes, a courageous black woman pulled down the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse, at last, and just the morning after the rainbow flag overtook the face of a nation – from Facebook profile photos to the front lawn of the White House.



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At last, we can be proud.

We can now be proud to live in an America with a black president who can finally own the realities of being black. After these 10 days in June, when he starts the week saying aloud that racism is “not just a matter of it not being polite to say nigger in public” and ends it singing Amazing Grace, Barack Obama is on fire.

We can be proud of a black president who can, at last, talk about race as he did way back in 2008, even as inspiringly as the idealist young citizen wrote in the pages of Dreams from My Father some 20 years ago. Sure, the hope and change have been replaced by grace and humility, but here is a man who walked into a black church on Friday – a church filled with the Holy Ghost, with pain after violence – and let his blackness shine beautifully, to affirm the sanctity that black lives matter.

Sure, these are symbols. But the powerless have challenged the powerful to be great again this June, and for that, we should all be proud.

We should be proud to live in a nation where the highest tribunal ruled twice – twice in a week! – in ways that that will aid the health and prosperity of people who are poor or queer or both, which is too often the case. By upholding key provisions of the Affordable Care Act and the Fair Housing Act, the US supreme court affirmed that millions will prosper. (Oh, and there was some other good news about gay and lesbian marriages or something this week, too.)

Here is what progressivism looks like in Barack Obama’s America circa 2015, whether it’s too late or not: even after these 10 days in June, we are not satisfied.

As enamored as we may rightfully feel about him right now, the president is not our friend – he is our elected leader. Obama has a year and a half to go, and in that eulogy for South Carolina pastor Clementa Pinckney (a fighter for black and LGBT civil rights himself), the president talked about the very things on which activists from Black Lives Matter and beyond have been pushing him so hard: racial bias in policing, racial bias in prison, racial bias in the voting booth, racial bias in school, racial bias at work. These things apply not just to race, but to gender, to sex, to the most basic things about ourselves.

We can be proud of our president, but we should be prouder still of Jennicet Gutiérrez, the immigrant transgender woman who understood that no hors d’oeuvre is worth your silence in the face of suffering – even when served by a president who would bathe our (not his) White House in rainbow lights just a few days after she interrupted him, bravely.

We should be proud of Chelsea Manning, the imprisoned transgender whistleblower who after sacrificing years of her life for speaking up against military violence, continues to dissent from behind bars.

We should be proud of Bree Newsome, the brave black woman who just got out from behind them for tearing down that damned flag.


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We can be proud to live in a country where queer black citizens have been at – are still at – the forefront of the fights for racial, sexual, political and economic freedom, from Bayard Rustin in the Southern Christian Leadership Coalition in the 1950s, to Marsha P Johnson at Stonewall in 1969, to Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi and Alicia Garza and DeRay Mckesson – the kinds of civil-rights leaders America has been waiting for since Martin Luther King Jr – and the many LGBT voices in the Black Lives Matter movement right now, today.

The American people can be proud to be in the midst a revolution. Our concept of gender is on the defensive, as is our prison industrial complex. The terms “structural racism” and “white supremacy”, usually banished from American discourse, are being spoken about everywhere, across the world. The redistribution of wealth to the rich by those who can’t afford health insurance is beyond stymied, but government subsidies for healthcare were saved. The mythology that race is anything more than a social construct has been exposed. For the first time ever, we have a collective understanding of how many people are actually killed by police, and every aspect of state authority is under examination – drones and troops, love and life, from right and left.

The most powerful form of patriotism is dissent, whether it’s standing up to the po-po or the president of the United States. We made these 10 days in June, and we should shout our pride to the rooftops.
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Old June 30th, 2015 #45
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"Blacks measure there worth in relation to whites."

Niggers measure their worth by the windfall cash opportunities provided by truth-speaking whites (even if the truth-speaking is only by accident; "I regret the pain I've inflicted with my hurtful words.", and so forth).

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VIDEO=> #BlackLivesMatter Disrupts Chicago Gay Rights Parade – Car Drives Through Crowd, 2 People Shot

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"This might be the one thing that BLM has disrupted and been totally right to do so. Gay pride events are, truly, an event for white bourgeois liberals who don't care about anything but themselves." - T. B.
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He admits voting 'Republican' won't help.

He also promotes a version of Pioneer Little Europe, but refers to it as the "Benedict Option".

We are going to have to learn how to live as exiles in our own country. We are going to have to learn how to live with at least a mild form of persecution. And we are going to have to change the way we practice our faith and teach it to our children, to build resilient communities.

ref: Christians Must Now Learn To Live as Exiles
Indeed. It's ironic that WN's will need to adapt to being "exiles" in an alien nation exactly as the Jews did for thousands of years.
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