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21 Oct, 4 tweets, 3 min read
That's....really too bad. @michaelwsmith, @rocketown is a treasured & sacred space (a real gift) you've given the city of Nashville. Please reconsider your decision to offer it as a platform to @johnrich (who bullied @lipscomb into firing @btpaschall, a prophet among us).
.@michaelwsmith, in light of this move, it's hard to know what to make of this song. If it's sincere, could you at least make sure someone who isn't all in for 45 also has access to a microphone at the event? In the interest of #Conversation?
This is still a lovely song and no decision to rent (or give) a space out to a white supremacist death cult will change that. I'd love to hear @mountain_goats sing it some time.
Say it ain't so, *whispers* Rocketown, Rocketown. eventbrite.com/e/belmont-pres…

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17 Sep
Really helpful thread from @wilsonhartgrove on a culture we share. I'll mention that Zinn (God love him) flew to Hanoi with Daniel Berrigan in 1968 to oversee the peaceful transfer of American POWs. Here's a little thread of my own...
Serving as a chaplain at Cornell, Berrigan received a call from Tom Hayden detailing an offer to release three American prisoners of war in celebration of the Buddhist Tet holiday.
Two representatives of the Nonviolent Movement of America would travel to Vietnam and conduct them back to America as a joint goodwill gesture. Zinn was his partner in international peace crime. Upon arrival, they each received an unconventional education in geopolitics.
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13 Sep
Start by uncapitalizing the three words. Like "Contemporary Christian Music" or "The Gospel Coalition" or "Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission," we NEVER have to let someone else's marketing do our thinking for us. /1
Then give this a go (read the replies) /2:
& consider, theory is just thinking. Critical thinking is just thinking carefully (not negatively). Critical race theory is just thinking carefully about race. Critical race theory is gospel (good news). Repent and believe it. /3
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31 May
Serious thanks for this question. I'll attempt a thread. #WhiteSupremacistAntichristPoltergeist is a handy way of naming a spirit that gets hold of people. As a Tennessean who attended a segregationist academy for twelve years, I know feelingly that it's had hold of me.
Calling it a spirit helps me have compassion on myself and others while also acknowledging that I've often been complicit in a system that's often served the ends of white supremacist terror. My blindness to it doesn't change the fact of it. WSAP is real AND ridiculous.
This statue (a white supremacist terror idol) has been worthy of ridicule my whole life long. Have I ridiculed it at any point in my fifty years in Nashville? No. I'd never done the research. It's been an abomination all along. Yesterday, it came down.
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19 Mar
America, the government isn't giving you money/tests/resources. It probably isn't even right to say you're "receiving" it. You're accessing your own funds &/or getting what you already paid for. It's called the promotion of our general welfare. Watch your language (& theirs).
You'll be accessing it the way @SenSchumer & @senatemajldr have been accessing our money & resources their entire adult lives. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. We don't say banks give & we receive. Let's not fall for the rhetoric of shame. Slow the tape.
We pay for drone strikes, libraries, roads, golf trips, bailouts, public schools, electric chairs, & naval carriers, a big White House, statues, etc. Directing our resources to the direct care of one another's health is one way of attempting actionable patriotism. Watch closely.
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5 Feb
100-year-old Tuskegee Airman, Charles McGee, getting passed over as Rush Limbaugh receives the Congressional Medal of Honor has me remembering some things....
I remember REALLY ENJOYING listening to Rush Limbaugh on my AM-only car radio on my way to philosophy class. He made this Tennesseean feel strong whenever I felt belittled by history, other people's thoughtfulness, & other forms of available data.
I remember David Letterman concluding a show by announcing that Rush Limbaugh was going to be his guest the next evening. His studio audience erupted with cheers AND boos and Dave looked flustered and made a joke of how unexpected that was.
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@davekarpf @MargaretAtwood 62/ One man's interrogation is another man's interview:
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@davekarpf @MargaretAtwood 64/ #RobotSoftExorcism isn't just for people with modest means. It can also involve politely requesting that one not be put in a position in which one would have to decline aloud a situation in which one would appear to be normalizing predation.
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