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The latest from “if your Christianity does not look like my Trump-supporting Christianity, then it’s not even Christianity at all” ...
Thinking that Buttigieg’s comments about faith are centered on winning Trump’s most supportive white evangelicals appears to be a fundamental understanding of so many things about faith, politics and identity politics.
And justifying how evangelicals can make room for a straight man who has yet to deeply discuss his faith & allegedly cheated on his 3rd wife w/ multiple women in adult entertainment but not a married gay man who regularly discusses how his faith shaped him is just ... yeah.
“Buttigieg’s approach is not likely to win the white evangelicals and white Catholics who find common ground with Trumpism, but these aren’t really the Americans he appears to be targeting.” washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
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One of the reasons our society struggles to dismantle white supremacy is because it too often is treated as irresponsible, childish “boys will be boys” behavior opposed to the deadly, dangerous worldview that it actually is.
My 65-year-old mother, who helped integrate her high school in North Carolina, still to this day will not go to a class reunion because of the trauma she experienced being a black female teenager in Southern public schools in the 1960s.
TRUST ME: If after experiencing racism at work, school, church, etc., we could just “walk it off,” we would!
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@Eugene_Scott
"Simply, Americans miss Bush because we miss the WASPs — because we feel, at some level, that their more meritocratic and diverse and secular successors rule us neither as wisely nor as well." - Ross Douthat

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Most days, I consume journalists and pundits talking about Americans and I think:

"they aren't talking about people like me."

But some days, that truth is more clear than other days.

Today is one of those days.
I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
- Langston Hughes
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Eugene Scott
@Eugene_Scott
Has been difficult finding a black person in Alabama who does not know that there’s an election today. One Birmingham native told me: “One thing I know for sure about black people in AL is that they always know what’s going on — there’s not much else but politics and football.”
Also worth noting that there seems to be a bit of a stigma against being a black person who is able to vote yet chooses not to. This is a state populated with people who still remember people like Rep. John Lewis being beat in Selma for fighting for the right for blacks to vote.
Was also told by a black state rep that when you hear a black man boldly saying that he won’t vote, it’s worth asking if he is even ALLOWED to vote. The answer is usually ‘No.’
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