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Does it seem to you, like it does me, that the unlikely is more likely to occur these days, than the likely?

 

The Bible says that God created the world in six days. I have often wondered if maybe He had taken a little more time He could gotten it right, like allowing money to grow on trees, and providing automatic accomodations for mothers-in-law. But what do I know? And maybe a few extra days of rest instead of just the one might have been sufficient motivation

 

On Jordan's stormy banks I stand and cast a wishful eye. Oh, who will come and follow me? I am bound for the Promised Land. But on the way I plan to stop at Dairy Queen and listen to a Salvation Army Band. Communion will be a brown-bag lunch on the side of the road. I leave in 15 minutes. It will be grand.

 

There’s No Denying It Anymore: Trump Is Not a Fluke—He’s America

The United States chose Donald Trump in all his ugliness and cruelty, and the country will get what it deserves.

ELIE MYSTAL in The Nation

 

The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future Paperback – September 10, 2024 

by  Robert P. Jones  (Author)

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A New York Times Bestseller

Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities in Mississippi, Minnesota, and Oklahoma for models of racial repair, The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy is “full of urgency and insight” (The New York Times) as it helps chart a new course toward a genuinely pluralistic democracy.

Beginning with contemporary effects to reckon with the legacy of white supremacy in America, Jones returns to the fateful year when a little-known church doctrine emerged that shaped the way five centuries of European Christians would understand the “discovered” world and the people who populated it. Along the way, he shows us the connections between Emmett Till and the Spanish conquistador Hernando De Soto in the Mississippi Delta, between the lynching of three Black circus workers in Duluth and the mass execution of thirty-eight Dakota men in Makato, and between the murder of 300 African Americans during the burning of Black Wall Street in Tulsa and the Trail of Tears.

From this vantage point, Jones offers a “revelatory…searing, stirring outline” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of how the enslavement of Africans was not America’s original sin but, rather, the continuation of acts of genocide and dispossession flowing from the first European contact with Native Americans. These deeds were justified by people who embraced the 15th-century Doctrine of Discovery: the belief that God had designated all territory not inhabited or controlled by Christians as their new promised land.

This “blistering, bracing, and brave” (Michael Eric Dyson) reframing of American origins explains how the founders of the United States could build the philosophical framework for a democratic society on a foundation of mass racial violence—and why this paradox survives today in the form of white Christian nationalism. Through stories of people navigating these contradictions in three communities, Jones illuminates the possibility of a new American future in which we finally fulfill the promise of a pluralistic democracy.

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 “This election appears to be more of a response to the aftermath of the pandemic and inflation,” Jackson said. “The key characteristic is a decline in the Democratic vote, not an increase in the Republican, suggesting that Democrats were unable to reassemble the winning coalition from 2020.”

-Salon.com

 The truth will finally one day come out of hiding. The longer it remains hidden the more painful it will be when the truth finally shows up.