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Mark Anslem
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Human | Openly Black | “I greet you with the love of God that don't make us friends.” —Malice | “I'm dipped in God's black complexion.” —Black Thought
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This is such a good conversation between @jamellebouie.net, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, and @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social.

FULL EPISODE: ‘The Opinions’ Podcast: There Is No Trump Without the South: youtu.be/dqpJKPCY64Y?...

🎥: @nytimesoped.bsky.social
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What used to be a place of joy or simple routine check-ins has become a horror house of fear and separation under this federal government.

As someone who would be the first immigrant Mayor in generations, I refuse to stand for it.
“The forces thus released in the people can never be held in check, but run their devouring course, destroying the very foundations which it was imagined they would save.”
“If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.”

—James Baldwin
In other news . . . HBO’s Task. Such good performances by the entire cast. Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey in this week’s penultimate episode: 👌🏾
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“Men who speak endlessly on authority only prove they have none. And kings who make speeches about submission only betray twin fears in their hearts: they are not certain they are really true leaders, sent of God. And they live in mortal fear of a rebellion.”

—Gene Edwards, A Tale of Three Kings
“And if their boot is on your neck, you my people. If their boot is on your neck, we belong together. . . . This is what America hates the most, for us to wake up to our mutual oppression.”

FULL VIDEO: www.youtube.com/live/MYXnD-C...
Sunday Worship - Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost & Holy Communion- October 5, 2025
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“We need the spirit of Fred Hampton to come alive among us today to say it doesn’t matter what color you are. It doesn’t matter where you’re from. It matters if they got their boot on your neck.

—Rev. William H. Lamar IV

🎥: Metropolitan AME (Washington, D.C.)
“Our doctrines are only as good as the fruit they produce.”

@pastortrey05.com, Theologizin’ Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly
There are A LOT of good books and other literature that speak to where we are as a nation. Ijeoma Oluo’s (@ijeomaoluo.bsky.social) Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America is one of them.
I haven’t listened to this album in so long. Definitely a good time to revisit it. #85toAfrica
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Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
As if authoritarianism and fascism are not bad enough, we are living in and under an idiocracy.
America is continuing to fail an open-book test.
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
Tupac Shakur warned us about rappers like Young Thung.
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if a tape was released with Young Thug talking about Martin Luther King Jr.:

“MLK ain’t put nobody on. Talkin’ ‘bout ‘I have and dream’ and ‘my four little children’ and how he made it to the mountaintop. How many records did he sell? Man, watch out.”
“There is a tender way we can confuse violence with love, trying to convince ourselves it wasn’t so bad.”

@marcelohcastillo.bsky.social, Children of the Land
“They have been white, if I may so put it, too long; they have been married to the lie of white supremacy too long; the effect on their personalities, their lives, their grasp of reality, has been as devastating as the lava which so memorably immobilized the citizens of Pompeii.”
“I will state flatly that the bulk of this country's white population impresses me, and has so impressed me for a very long time, as being beyond any conceivable hope of moral rehabilitation.”

—James Baldwin
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

—James Baldwin
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”

—Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
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Good morning, beloved.

What you think is important.

What you DO is even more important.

Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.