Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.
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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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healing isn’t cute. it’s not aesthetic. or curatable. its not quoting affirmations you don’t believe in yet.
it’s texting a friend “i know i said i was over it. i lied.” it’s crying in the bathroom, washing your face, and going anyway. it’s learning the same lesson five times before it sticks.
its boring. messy. inconvenient. repetitive. and most of the time, it doesn’t even feel like healing. until one day, it does.
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I refuse to be the kind of person who loses their mind over a delayed train or lets a spilled coffee set the tone for the whole day.
I want to be the one who stays composed, who sees the good even when things don’t go as planned. The kind of person who breathes through the little chaos and still finds beauty in how the day unfolds.
I want to be soft. I want to be steady.
What is there to say about the Inauguration and MLK holiday falling on the same day? A great deal. Here’s just a little bit. The juxtaposition makes clear that it is past due time to abandon the nation’s self congratulatory narrative that attends monuments and holidays in celebration of Civil Rights heroes and the larger/longer Freedom struggle of Black People. The values that led to T$&mps election are not new to this country. They existed at the founding and even prior in the Colonial period. Of course there is a destabilizing effect when there are new expressions of bigotry and venom, but the ideas and ideals are old hat. The King holiday, then, must become an occasion for people of conscience to refresh their commitments to justice and the beloved community. We literally are inheritors of a many generations old struggle. The memory of MLK Jr. is a challenge in this moment. How might we learn from his moral witness, his courage as he confronted unjust laws and hateful country-people? What might we learn from studying his ideas, and the complexities and conflicts within the movement that might provide insight for our era of the long freedom struggle? Likewise on Juneteenth, May Day, Labor Day, and May 19th (the birthday of Malcolm X, Lorraine Hansberry & Yuri Kochiyama) we will be called to reflect on what they have to teach us that is applicable today, and to do so with inspiration rather than simple imitation. And the lesson of this moment is varied. I thought today on the one hand about rappers performing at the inauguration and remembered it has always been the case that in the vast array of politics and commitments that Black people have, some are so deeply self interested that they have utter disregard for the well being of members of their communities or others subject to injustice. Their popularity is, to me, meaningless in comparison to their values. On the other hand, I must admit I feel a bittersweetness at best (and really its bitterness) at the pardon of Marcus Garvey, generations late when he has become frozen beyond recognition in the US national consciousness, merely an icon. And I felt the same way when Malcolm was given a stamp. And I feel the same way with the flat meme-fication of so many great thinkers and organizers. I don’t want to quarrel with those who are celebrating the pardon. People should get joy where they can. But suffice it to say, regardless of whether you’re celebrating or skeptical, we cannot afford the repeated iconographic turn. Not now. No more. We have to lead with care for the legacies of our ancestors, critically, deliberately, and in community with others who believe in freedom.
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We must challenge the wolf-like politicians, and we must challenge the white-washing preachers b/c in every age God is looking for somebody to stand up and speak up.
They're physically removing the Greensboro lunch counter from the Smithsonian—the actual counter where four brave students sparked a national movement in 1960. This isn't just about museum artifacts. It's about who gets to exist in America's story, whose courage is remembered, and whose resistance is honored.
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