#antiracism as religion

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Aaron Benner

Published: Oct 2, 2015

I have been an elementary teacher almost all of my adult life, mostly in St. Paul Public Schools. First and foremost, I teach because I love kids, I love schools, I love our city, and I really love what happens when a group of kids becomes a community in a classroom and a school. For this to occur, everybody has to play a part — parents, students, teachers, building and district administration, and the broader community. As a black man, it breaks my heart to watch these communities fall apart and to see some children who look like me behave so poorly in our schools.

In 2011, I addressed the St. Paul School Board. At the time, I told them about my concerns with student behavior at Benjamin E. Mays Elementary School, where I taught sixth grade. I hoped to start a discussion about what I was witnessing. Although the media paid some attention (likely because my race made for an interesting story), the school board ignored me. I addressed the board again on May 20, 2014, regarding the same issues, but this time I was aware they were happening districtwide. Four other brave teachers accompanied me. The school board ignored us again and tried to paint us as anti-racial equity.

From 2013-15, I taught fourth grade at John A. Johnson Elementary (JAJ). The behaviors that I witnessed last year at JAJ were far worse than what I complained to the school board about in 2011 and in 2014. On a daily basis, I saw students cussing at their teachers, running out of class, yelling and screaming in the halls, and fighting. If I had a dollar for every time my class was interrupted by a student running into my room and yelling, I’d be a rich man. It was obvious to me that these behaviors were affecting learning, so when I saw the abysmal test scores this summer, I was not surprised. Out of 375 students, only 14.3 percent were proficient in Reading, 9.6 percent in Math and 9.3 percent in Science. These test scores are not acceptable in any way, shape or form.

I diligently collected data on the behaviors that I saw in our school and completed behavior referrals for the assaults. These referrals were not accurately collected. The school suspended some students, but many more assaults were ignored or questioned by administrators to the point where the assaults were not even documented. I have since learned that this tactic is widely used throughout the district to keep the numbers of referrals and suspensions low.

The parents who complained to the school board last year about behavior at Ramsey Jr. High know all too well about behaviors being ignored. The students of SPPS are being used in some sort of social experiment where they are not being held accountable for their behavior. This is only setting our children up to fail in the future, especially our black students. All of my students at JAJ were traumatized by what they experienced last year — even my black students. Safety was my number one concern, not teaching.

Who would conduct such an experiment on our kids? I blame the San Francisco-based consulting firm, Pacific Education Group (PEG). PEG was hired by SPPS in 2010 to help close the achievement gap. PEG makes no secret of the fact that its prescription for closing the gap is based on the Critical Race Theory. This theory argues that racism is so ingrained in the American way of life — its economy, schools, and government — that things must be made unequal in order to compensate for that racism. PEG pushes the idea that black students are victims of white school policies that make it difficult or impossible for them to learn. So, when a black student is disruptive, PEG, as I see it, stresses that it’s not their fault, and the student should just take a break, and then return to class shortly thereafter.

Racism and white privilege definitely exist, and there is not enough space in this paper for me to share all of the humiliating encounters I’ve experienced that are a product of racism. But to blame poor behavior and low test scores solely on white teachers is simply wrong. However, it’s the new narrative in our district, pushed by PEG.

I recently dropped out of the St. Paul School Board race to focus on my new job at a charter school, but I’m still concerned with the current state of SPPS and the direction of the school board. Here’s what I think should happen: First and foremost, the newly elected board must sever ties with Pacific Education Group. PEG has charged the taxpayers of St. Paul $3 million over the last five years. According to some reports, SPPS has matched PEG with $1.2 million. What are these matching dollars used for? It is crucial to understand that behaviors throughout the district have escalated to the point where we are at a crisis in St. Paul. PEG is not working. To add insult to injury, two weeks ago, the St. Paul School Board had the audacity to set the ceiling of next year’s tax levy 3.85 percent higher than the current year. Tax increase? This must be a joke.

Racial equity and closing the achievement gap, the correct way, are commendable goals. However, PEG’s idea of racial equity is NOT the answer. PEG stresses black culture and nothing else. What is black culture? Did PEG survey the black community of St. Paul and ask what behaviors should be acceptable in our schools? I don’t recall filling out any surveys or receiving any phone calls regarding this topic.

Because of PEG, we have forgotten about our Asian, Latino and Native communities. The St. Paul Public School district has the second most diverse school population in the country (New York City is ranked No. 1). For the record, Asians make up the largest minority group in our schools. PEG has influenced this district on major policy changes, from questionable behavioral guidelines and hiring practices to the creation of new positions with jargonistic titles.

We now have “Cultural Specialists” and “Behavior Specialists” throughout our schools. An overwhelming number of these specialists are black, and it’s not clear to me what their qualifications are. Their job seems to be to talk to students who have been involved in disruptions or altercations and return them to class as quickly as possible. Some of these “specialists” even reward disruptive students by taking them to the gym to play basketball (yes, you read that correctly). This scene plays out over and over for teachers throughout the school day. There is no limit to the number of times a disruptive student will be returned to your class. The behavior obviously has not changed, and some students have realized that their poor behavior has its benefits.

St. Paul Public Schools is in desperate need of true behaviorists to replace these “specialists.” Licensed therapists who are trained to help change and replace inappropriate behaviors. I expect that PEG would never go for this because it would contradict their excuse that “black culture” accounts for such behaviors. The newly elected school board can change that.

Another action the newly elected school board must take is to visit schools, listen to teachers, and offer them much-needed support. Teachers are currently fending for themselves when it comes to behavior concerns. Part of my frustration is with the leadership of the St. Paul Federation of Teachers. The union is so concerned with getting along with the district that they are paralyzed when the hundreds of teachers they represent bring up the issue of behavior. This needs to change.

PEG and SPPS are harming the very people whose interests they claim to represent. Follow the money. The taxpayers of St. Paul should demand to know who exactly is benefitting from PEG. Students definitely aren’t.

Aaron Anthony Benner works as the African- American Liaison/Behavior Coach and Community of Peace Academy, a public charter school in St. Paul.

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By: Victor Skinner

Published: Sep 24, 2019

Aaron Benner, a black teacher from St. Paul, Minnesota, won a large settlement with the St. Paul School District last week over retaliation he faced for speaking out against the district’s race-based student discipline policies.

Benner argued the investigations came in retaliation for complaints to the school board about race-based student discipline policies implemented by then Superintendent Valeria Silva and promoted by President Obama. The discipline policies aimed to reduce suspensions of black students by lowering the expectations for behavior and increasing the threshold for suspensions, something Benner repeatedly, publicly argued was against the best interests of black students.

The “restorative justice” approach to student discipline was accompanied by “white privilege” teacher training sessions that cost the district taxpayers more than $3 million. Those sessions focused on the “white privilege” theory that the public education system is hopelessly stacked against black students, who shouldn’t be held accountable for poor academics or bad behavior.

In St. Paul and hundreds of schools across the country, the “white privilege” training sessions were conducted by Pacific Educational Group, also known as PEG.

“PEG was hired by SPPS in 2010 to help close the achievement gap. PEG makes no secret that its prescription for closing the gap is based on the Critical Race Theory. This theory argues that racism is so ingrained in the American way of life – its economy, schools, and government – that things must be made unequal in order to compensate for that racism,” Benner wrote in a 2015 editorial for the Press.

“Peg pushes the idea that black students are victims of white school policies that make it difficult or impossible for them to learn,” Benner wrote. “So, when a black student is disruptive, PEG, as I see it, stresses that it’s not their fault.”

Benner refused to accept that black students are less capable than their white classmates and left the school district in 2015. Benner taught at a local charter school and was later hired for a administration position at the St. Paul private school Cretin-Derham Hall, according to the Star Tribune.

After years of complaints from parents, teachers, administrators and others about violent and disruptive students running rampant with impunity, St. Paul school leaders eventually got rid of Silva and scrapped the failed student discipline policies.

Last week, the school board settled up with Benner, though the district denied any wrongdoing.

“This agreement enables the district to avoid the time, expense and uncertainty of protracted legal proceedings regarding its previous policies, practices and expectations,” board members wrote in a prepared statement.

The district contends taxpayers are responsible for $50,000 of the settlement, while its insurer will cover $475,000.

Benner told the Star Tribune he credits God for the favorable outcome.

“I thank God for all the blessings in my life,” he wrote in an email to the news site. “I turned 50 this year, got married in July and now (there is) this settlement.”

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

The murder of priestess Mãe Bernadete and the rise of the ‘holy war’ against African religions in Brazil

Over the past two years, there has been a 45% increase in attacks fueled by religious intolerance. According to specialists, this is related to the surge of evangelical fundamentalism

Maria Bernadete Pacífico, 72, was an institution in Salvador de Bahía, in northeastern Brazil, where she was known simply as Mãe Bernadete. She was a respected quilombola leader (a community formed by the descendants of slaves who fled their masters) and ialorixá — a priestess of Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé.

For years, Bernadete had been fighting for the territorial integrity of her quilombo, located on the outskirts of Salvador and coveted by loggers and land speculators. A few weeks ago, two gunmen invaded her terreiro — the sacred place where ceremonies are held — and shot her dead. Six years earlier, her son was killed. Investigators have pointed to the agrarian conflict as the main cause of the murder, but haven’t ruled out religious motives.

Crimes due to religious intolerance have grown in Brazil in recent years. According to the most recent data from the Ministry of Human Rights, cases have increased by 45% in the last two years. Last year, 113 complaints were filed, although the government acknowledges that this number may be higher, as many of these crimes are still considered to be fights between neighbors. The incumbent government also accuses the previous administration of Jair Bolsonaro (2018-2022) of dismantling the system that facilitated these types of complaints.

The crime of religious intolerance ranges from extreme cases — such as murder or daily assaults — to insults, threats and other types of discrimination for religious reasons. The latter offenses can result in sentences ranging from two to five years in jail. In Brazil, those who suffer the most from religious intolerance are the practitioners of African-based religions, such as Candomblé, Umbanda and Quimbanda.

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[buddhistmusings]

More people need to talk about the phenomenon of the misuse of the concept of cultural appropriation as a tool to isolate groups, decrease dialogue, harm multiculturalism, and promote racial stereotyping.

Some people obfuscate the meaning of the phrase "cultural appropriation," which includes elements of ignorance, disrespect, self-benefit, and exploitation, and apply the concept to situations where that's not occurring. They do this, often, to actually PROMOTE racial stereotyping. For example, the criticism of a white person for wearing a noragi jacket. If they understand where it comes from, acknowledge that, and aren't benefitting financially at the expense of Japanese people, then the reasonable position is that it is NOT cultural appropriation. When we make accusations of cultural appropriation in these situations, what we are actually doing is suggesting that Japanese clothing *shouldn't* be worn by white people because that's not what white people do. That's racial stereotyping and is anti-multicultural. In addition, one can understand how an avoidance of Japanese clothing among white people might actually harm Japanese owned business. So, in such an example, accusations of cultural appropriation can have a detrimental effect on the source culture!

I've seen the misuse of cultural appropriation by Christians as a way of persuading white Americans to avoid exploring other religious traditions like Buddhism, Islam, and certain Daoist or Hindu groups, which welcome converts. That has a negative effect on the source culture as well. Buddhists, for example, welcome participants and support from people of all races and cultures. If white people avoid going to Buddhist temples simply because they're afraid of accusations of cultural appropriation, Buddhists are actually harmed by that.

There's also a phenomenon where people accuse others of cultural appropriation when they admire and engage with multiple practices from the same culture. However, this is also harmful because approaching another person's culture in a multi-faceted holistic way, as opposed to a segmented way, is going to lead to a deeper understanding, respect, and admiration for that culture. For example, yoga is mainstream in the United States. This is often Americans' only exposure to Indian culture. Wouldn't it be better for somebody interested in yoga to also explore Indian culinary traditions, philosophy, religion, and history rather than just stopping with yoga poses? Nothing in culture exists segmented from other aspects of culture. An Indian-centered approach to yoga, that might lead somebody into a deep love and appreciation for Indian culture, is far more likely to be of benefit to Indians than somebody who takes yoga and leaves the rest.

So yes, cultural appropriation is real. We need to be educated on a culture and understanding of a particular person's background and intentions before knowing if it is occurring. Far too often, we invoke cultural appropriation without first understanding those things, and when we do that, we are harming the people we intend to help.

[odoniam]

have you truly stopped believing in god? if u believe there's an inherent law to how Things Work, if you call Natural the way human culture developed, if you think history is just a list of examples of how Things Are Supposed To Be, why call yourself an atheist if your god has simply changed names?

This isn't to say that ppl's end goal should be becoming A Perfect Atheist. Idgaf! Idk if i am one. But I do believe we should learn to recognize religious dogmas outside of religious environments. Bc, u know, ive noticed how often ppl who believe in "this is how thing are supposed to be" usually tend to merge pretty well with the "the capitalist world is the best possible one" and "racism and sexism are natural" ppl

Im also a little dumb creature smaller than an already small world and whos dyslexic and lazy and dumb as hell so

[nando161mando]

[attheexactlyrighttimeandplace]

[alphaman99]

Liberty, Free Markets, and Peace

"Third Wave Antiracist tenets, stated clearly and placed in simple oppositions, translate into nothing whatsoever:

1. When black people say you have insulted them, apologize with profound sincerity and guilt. But don’t put black people in a position where you expect them to forgive you. They have dealt with too much to be expected to.

2. Black people are a conglomeration of disparate individuals. “Black culture” is code for “pathological, primitive ghetto people.” But don’t expect black people to assimilate to “white” social norms because black people have a culture of their own.

3. Silence about racism is violence. But elevate the voices of the oppressed over your own.

4. You must strive eternally to understand the experiences of black people. But you can never understand what it is to be black, and if you think you do, you’re a racist.

5. Show interest in multiculturalism. But do not culturally appropriate. What is not your culture is not for you, and you may not try it or do it. But if you aren’t nevertheless interested in it, you are a racist.

6. Support black people in creating their own spaces and stay out of them. But seek to have black friends. If you don’t have any, you’re a racist. And if you claim any, they’d better be good friends—in their private spaces, you aren’t allowed in.

7. When whites move away from black neighborhoods, it’s white flight. But when whites move into black neighborhoods, it’s gentrification, even when they pay black residents generously for their houses.

8. If you’re white and only date white people, you’re a racist. But if you’re white and date a black person, you are, if only deep down, exotifying an “other.”

9. Black people cannot be held accountable for everything every black person does. But all whites must acknowledge their personal complicity in the perfidy throughout history of “whiteness.”

10. Black students must be admitted to schools via adjusted grade and test score standards to ensure a representative number of them and foster a diversity of views in classrooms. But it is racist to assume a black student was admitted to a school via racial preferences, and racist to expect them to represent the “diverse” view in classroom discussions.

I suspect that deep down, most know that none of this catechism makes any sense. Less obvious is that it was not even composed with logic in mind. The self-contradiction of these tenets is crucial, in revealing that Third Wave Antiracism is not a philosophy but a religion."

[rockislandadultreads]

Black History Month: Nonfiction Recommendations

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America - but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.

In this book, Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism. How to Be an Antiracist is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society.

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people - including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others - she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day.

The Black Church by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity - an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative - as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues.

Black Futures edited by Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham

Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work - images, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more - to tell the story of the radical, imaginative, provocative, and gorgeous world that Black creators are bringing forth today. The book presents a succession of startling and beautiful pieces that generate an entrancing rhythm: Readers will go from conversations with activists and academics to memes and Instagram posts, from powerful essays to dazzling paintings and insightful infographics.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools and make excuses for their academic shortcomings and personal misbehavior. But please don't congratulate yourself on your compassion." -- Thomas Sowell

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

How Brazil's Evangelical Surge Threatens Survival Of Native Afro-Brazilian Faith

Followers of the Afro-Brazilian Umbanda religion in four traditional communities in the country’s northeast are resisting pressure to convert to evangelical Christianity.

Among a host of images of saints and Afro-Brazilian divinities known as orixás, Abel José, 42, an Umbanda priest, lights some candles, picks up his protective beads and adjusts the straw hat that sits atop his head. He is preparing to treat four people from neighboring villages who have come to his house in search of spiritual help and treatment for health ailments.

The meeting takes place discreetly, in a small room that has been built in the back of the garage of his house. Abel lives in the quilombo of Sítio Bredos, home to 135 families. The community, located in the municipality of Betânia of Brazil’s northeastern state of Pernambuco, is one of the municipality’s four remaining communities that have been certified as quilombos, the word used to refer to communities formed in the colonial era by enslaved Africans and/or their descendents.

In these villages there are almost no residents who still follow traditional Afro-Brazilian religions. Abel, Seu Joaquim Firmo and Dona Maura Maria da Silva are the sole remaining followers of Umbanda in the communities in which they live. A wave of evangelical missionary activity has taken hold of Betânia’s quilombos ever since the first evangelical church belonging to the Assembleia de Deus group was built in the quilombo of Bredos around 20 years ago. Since then, other evangelical, pentecostal, and neo-pentecostal churches and congregations have established themselves in the area. Today there are now nine temples spread among the four communities, home to roughly 900 families.

The temples belong to the Assembleia de Deus, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and the World Church of God's Power, the latter of which has over 6,000 temples spread across Brazil and was founded by the apostle and televangelist Valdemiro Santiago, who became infamous during the pandemic for trying to sell beans that he had blessed as a Covid-19 cure. Assembleia de Deus alone, who are the largest pentecostal denomination in the world, have built five churches in Betânia’s quilombos.

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[automatismoateo]

How Losing my Faith Made Me a Better Person via /r/atheism

How Losing my Faith Made Me a Better Person

I deconstructed my faith at 19.

I was in my second semester of freshman college taking my first philosophy class. Coming into the class I would have classified myself as a Christian, and I held most of the conservative viewpoints that are well known: homo/transphobic, ignorant towards the oppression I as a white male contributed to due to “God made everyone equal”, and thinking other religions were wrong because it was not Christianity. As we got into the religion portion of that class, my world flipped on itself.

I questioned my faith for the first time.

It all started with talking about arguments for God, and a lot of them ended up being heavily fallacious; I will never forget when someone said “because the Bible is the inspired word of God”.

I thought that was a good answer at the time, but my professor had something else to say about it.

“That would be circular reasoning,” he said. Then, he explained how using the Bible to reason that God is real does not work because the argument basically follows as such:

If God is real, the Bible is true,

the Bible is the inspired word of God so it is true,

God is Real.

at that moment I questioned everything my live was based on. It delved me into a rabbit hole that 6 years later I am still chasing.

With the loss of my faith, my mind changed so much about the people I did not agree with most of my life. I have help those people that I once disliked to now helping them bring their voices up. I have educated myself on the LGBTQ+ communities struggles, and fight for their right to exist. I have studied information and antiracism to understand how my ancestors actions still effect the present today, and advocate for reform. Furthermore, my favorite things to study now is religions because I want to understand their traditions and customs even more (even if I do not believe what they believe).

Losing my faith helped me love those around me. Even those who I may disagree with ideologically.

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[taylorthinksinc]

Blog Assignment #2: Earthseed

Earthseed is a religion and way of life that eventually guides a community in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. I think real-life issues that would make it necessary to create a system like Earthseed are racism and environmental decline. Racism is at the forefront of my mind because it is hateful, divisive, has intergenerational effects, and is a physical threat/danger. I would choose environmental decline as my second issue because obviously the earth is home to humanity and I believe caring for it would be a strong motif for a belief system and way of life like Earthseed. Ultimately my community would be seeking shelter from hatred and from centering individuality over the community. 

Two Earthseed verses that would be applicable to my community would be “All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.” and “Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.” I would apply the first quote to my community as a main principle, I resonate with the idea of submitting to change. Change can be scary but there is so much power in change, earthseed says God is change and we are all capable of creating change and changing ourselves and that is inherently powerful and divine. The second quote emphasizes the importance of community and togetherness. In my version of Earthseed members would work together to take care of the community and adapt and grow based on people's strengths and weaknesses. 

I would create my Earthseed community in a small central or northern California town. I have lived in New York most of my life but since living in California I’ve learned how beneficial the temperament weather is. Nice weather and the absence of winter or snow would be helpful for my settlement because farming and agriculture will be some of the main pillars of our community. As for who can join, I would want to start with the people closest to me and grow very slowly to give time for the community to build trust between themselves. Anyone who doesn't align with antiracism or isn't excited to work for the common good of the community would not be welcomed into the community. The leadership model would be an elected council that represents the different identities in the community and individual members would vote on decisions for the group.

A future technology that would help to improve life at my Earthseed community would be self-sustaining eco-chambers to grow food and crops so we would not have to rely on a constant source of water. My Earthseed community would survive because our community would be centered around farming and the environment. I think there is a lot to learn from plants spiritually but more tangibly we would use our knowledge of agriculture and medicinal plants to survive. We would use farming and education around sustainability and medicinal plant to build a better future.

[matrixonics]

On February 20th of every year, World Social Justice Day is celebrated. Let's join hands in removing social barriers based on race, gender, or religion from our society.

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[blackhistorychatgpt]

ME: write a speech on dangers of white supremacy groups like The Proud Boys. In the style of a speech by Martin Luther King jr.

ChatGPT:

I stand before you today, with a heavy heart, to address a grave issue that threatens the very fabric of our society. White supremacy groups like The Proud Boys, who espouse hateful ideologies and engage in acts of violence and intimidation, pose a dangerous threat to the safety and well-being of our communities.

These groups promote a twisted ideology that seeks to divide and conquer, to instill fear and hatred in the hearts of our fellow citizens. They seek to turn back the clock on the progress we have made towards a more just and equitable society, and to return us to a time of bigotry and discrimination.

But we cannot let them succeed. We must stand up and speak out against their hateful rhetoric, their violent actions, and their attempts to undermine the principles of equality and justice that our nation was founded upon.

As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." We cannot remain silent in the face of evil. We must raise our voices and take action to ensure that these groups are marginalized and discredited, and that their hateful ideologies are rejected by the overwhelming majority of our society.

We must also recognize that the roots of white supremacy run deep in our history, and that it will take more than words to uproot them. We must work tirelessly to address the underlying social, economic, and political inequalities that give rise to such ideologies, and to promote a vision of a society in which all people are treated with dignity and respect, regardless of their race, religion, or national origin.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are at a crossroads in our nation's history. The choices we make today will determine the future of our country and the world. We must choose to reject the forces of hate and division, and to embrace the principles of love and justice. We must choose to stand up for what is right, even in the face of opposition.

Let us rise to the occasion, and let us stand together, united in our determination to create a better future for all people.

Thank you.

write appropriate twitter tags about speech you wrote about white supremacy and The Proud Boys

#WhiteSupremacy #TheProudBoys #HateGroups #SocialJustice #CivilRights #AntiRacism #Equality #Unity #Diversity #Tolerance #Peace #Democracy #HateSpeech #CounteringHate #FightingBigotry #BuildingABetterWorld #MLK #Inspiration #Leadership

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[angelsaxis]

words that folks on this site don't actually know the definitions of:

cult

propaganda

religion

censorship