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White Christ and Black Oppression
“To suggest that protest activity is irrelevant to Christ is to suggest that Blackness is irrelevant to Christ.”
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My Blue Bucket of Gold
Apropos of nothing, I’ve been listening to Gallant nonstop for the past three days. Here he is with Sufjan Stevens singing “My Blue Bucket of Gold.” That falsetto. I’m undoubtedly late to knowing about Gallant. Who can I blame for this?
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“…a cog in the machine of a racist hierarchy.”
In America, racism is a default setting. To do nothing, to go along with the market, to claim innocence or neutrality, is to inevitably be a cog in the machine of racist hierarchy. These two sentences, by Ta-Nehisi Coates in a moving article about Nina Simone, perfectly summarizes why neutrality isn’t an option when it comes…
David W. Swanson 