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Sep 2 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
I was invited to tonight’s @potus speech from Independence Hall. Couldn’t attend because I was traveling today. Watching now!

“The threat to American Democracy is real… That’s why tonight I’m calling all Americans to come together to save democracy!” President Joe Biden
“There is no place for political violence in America! None!” @potus
Legislative leaders are warning and calling for violence in the street. We, the people, must reject the politics of violence! - @potus (paraphrase)
“American democracy only works if we respect the guardrails established in the building behind me!” @POTUS referring to Independence Hall.
“It is within our power to stop the assault on democracy!” @POTUS

Then rolls through legislation passed just in past two months that are building a better America!
Wow! @POTUS is challenging #RonaldReagan! #MorningInAmerica
“The soul of America is rooted in the sacred truth that ALL are created in the image of God!!!” @POTUS
Democracy makes the protection of the image of God possible! - @Potus (paraphrase)

Yes, Mr. President!!! Exactly!!!!

#FortuneBook!!
“We cannot afford to leave anyone on the sidelines!” @POTUS
This was a profound declaration!!!! All pp are made in the image of God! This gives each person sacred value, worthy of the protection of the law! Democracy protects the image of God! @POTUS sounded like he read #VeryGoodGospel!!! 😃🙌🏾
Over past week I spoke on #FortuneBook in West Michigan. Guess what? Disillusioned Republicans/Independents came. They listened. They nodded. The skeptical asked good questions. We talked. They got it.

To defend Democracy is to defend the image of God in ALL. #SouloftheNation

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1/ I’ve been thinking about the sudden and illogical attack on @BethMooreLPM. #bethmoore
2/ While I have reflected that my relationship with Jesus has moved from boyfriend-ish to brown liberator, Bob reminds where the whole evangelical lovey-dovey image of Jesus comes from. #churchasbrideofchrist #bethmoore
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For those who say they are tired of hearing about the link between the anti-Abortion movement and white male domination in the US…

For those who cheer the Supreme court ruling on Roe and still claim to be anti-racist and pro-women, the truth Is… 1/ lisasharonharper.substack.com/p/the-death-of…
There are many reasons people join movements. Your anti-Abortion stance may be grounded in your sense of morality.

But morality was not and IS NOT the driver of that movement. It has always been about regaining white male domination.

And here’s the thing… 2/ #RoeVWade
If the impact of well-intentioned people following white supremacists is racial and gender oppression, then those followers are guilty of racial and gender oppression.

Why? They did not require their party to find better way. 3/3
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1/ I recently spoke on the intersections of race/gender oppression in US. The very first RACE Law in the nation’s foundational history was passed in VA 1662. It was also the very first GENDER-based law and the first CITIZENSHIP law passed on this soil.
2/ That 1662 law created race-based slavery, by locating citizenship in the womb of the mother. Citizens could not be enslaved. So, if your mother was enslaved, she wasn’t a citizen and you were not a citizen. So, you could be enslaved. Plus, they outlawed interracial marriage.
3/ The 1662 law was in full force for 200+ years until passage of 13th and 14th Amendments, which ended race-based citizenship and outlawed slavery. Interracial marriage wasn’t legalized until the Loving v. Virginia (1967) Supreme Court ruling 305 years after VA’s 1662 race law.
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Perhaps the violence displayed between #WillSmith and #ChrisRock at #Oscars2022 was “scarier than a Southern Baptist Convention” because it was an open display of the outcome of four centuries of violence by Southern Baptists on bodies, minds and souls of African descent.
It was #ChrisRock’s bow to white patriarchy by undercutting a sharp Black woman’s hair and calling her less than a woman in front of billions of people.
It was #ChrisRock’s choice to belittle a human being with a disability (alopecia). The roots of white supremacy do not consider the disabled human, therefore they are unprotected from humiliation.
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Mar 16
"What we know is that violence has drivers. And one of the drivers is the inability to meet one's economic needs--poverty…” 1/
- Jamila Hodge, @EJUSA

#blackfortunelentenseries #race #raceinAmerica #racialjustice #reparations #truthseeker #truthteller

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“And so it is not surprising that Black people, who have had life, land, and labor stolen for generations disproportionately make up those who are impacted by violence.” 2/
- Jamila Hodge, @EJUSA

#blackfortunelentenseries #raceinAmerica #racialjustice #reparations #truthteller
“And in thinking about the issue of safety, what we know is that safety is more than the absence of violence. It's the presence of community wellbeing; it is thriving communities." 3/ - Jamila Hodge, @EJUSA

#Lent2022 #blackfortunelentenseries #race #reparations #truthteller
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