Tag Archives: White supremacism

A Heart Full of Grace

On this birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., celebrated during times of racist violence and white supremacist insurrection unleashed in the name of “American greatness”, we give full attention to one of MLK’s most powerfully transformative sermons: The Drum Major Instinct, delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church on February 4, 1968.

We urge close, deep listening to the entirety of the sermon; excerpts transcribed below.

 

 

 

 

We also take note of an op-ed in the Washington Post written by MLK III in opposition to the ruthless executions staged by a racist & omnicidal thanatocracy during its own dying days, with an excerpt relayed below:

 

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Regimes of Racist Terror

Amidst the cacophony of a malignant regime finally exposing its white supremacist core, we bend an ear to professor Manisha Sinha, historian of slavery, abolition, Civil War and Reconstruction and the author of The Slave’s Cause and The Counterrevolution of Slavery. 

Excerpts from a recent interview below; caption to the image added by DP.

 

 

THE DAY MAGALAND DISPLAYED ITS TRUE COLORS

 

During the largely peaceful BLM protests, Trump declared that anyone damaging federal property would be charged with felony riot and face the possibility of ten years in prison.

Let us see what punishment shall be deemed appropriate for the racist & deluded berserkers who ransacked the capitol, and for those who incited and praised them as “patriots”. Of all the lies spewed forth from the twisted MAGA delusion machine, surely that is the most repugnant – yet.

We close with the glorious voices of the Resistance Chorus, with luminous Rhiannon Giddens in the mix:

 

BOUND TO LOSE

 

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Limber Cruelty

During this week of commemoration, being 75 years since the United States dropped two bombs on overwhelmingly civilian populations in Japan, we turn to Elaine Scarry in the pages of the Boston Review.

The entire essay is worth a close read; excerpts below, with archival photos  added by DP.

 

FAT MAN

 

LITTLE BOY

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