White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity : NPR

White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity : NPR — Read on http://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/883115867/white-supremacist-ideas-have-historical-roots-in-u-s-christianity

Our Present Turmoil

My family member(s) on the current societal turmoil: “some people think we [whites] paid our debt by blood in the civil war.” Me: “ya, but others kept saying “the South will rise again,” and their descendants & loyalists wormed their way into police forces & elected office.” One of the major ways the “Southern” traitors …

“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” – Teaching American History

"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" - Teaching American History — Read on teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/

How Jesus became so white – The Washington Post

Millions of cards with the image, endorsed by then-President Dwight Eisenhower and Trump family pastor Norman Vincent Peale, went all over the world. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/06/25/how-an-iconic-painting-jesus-white-man-was-distributed-around-world/

Evolution, Apocalypse, and Remembering Rachel Held Evans | Evolving Faith

Well, our podcast launched today and we are already number one in Religion and Spirituality! 🥳 That is all thanks to you, friends - so grateful for your generosity and reviews, support and subscribes! It has made our day. https://t.co/EfVQ3NQFwf— Evolving Faith (@EvolvFaith) June 24, 2020 link: open.spotify.com/episode/5q0jBRBVha20a8tSAmNXpS

Resource Share: Racism Results from Protestant Heresies | @mako_nagasawa

Resource share: Systemic Racism results from Protestant heresies. European Protestants wanted to make quick money in a legal gray zone in the colonies. Slavery was illegal in England, legal in the colonies. Seizing land was illegal in England, but legal in the colonies...— Mako Nagasawa (@mako_nagasawa) June 23, 2020 ...on the basis of "being more …

Berlin authorities placed children with pedophiles

The 'Kentler Project' in West Berlin routinely placed homeless children with pedophile men, assuming they'd make ideal foster parents. A study has found the practice went on for decades. — Read on amp.dw.com/en/berlin-authorities-placed-children-with-pedophiles-for-30-years/a-53814208

Racism in America | Holy Post by @philvischer

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Police: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

WARNING: video contains expletives.... Also warning, if you care about being “offended” by the use of expletives on the John Oliver show more than being informed & horrified by the long-standing racism & police brutality that kills people like a George Floyd & Breonna Taylor at a rate of 1.5 people a day since 2015 …