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Nonilex<p>Speaking on WBEZ’s “In the Loop” show with Sasha-Ann Simons, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chicago</span></a> Mayor <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BrandonJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrandonJohnson</span></a> called <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, “unstable.”</p><p>“We know that. He’s a double-minded man, &amp; he is also very simple-minded. And it’s totally not the first time that Trump has called for a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> man to be arrested. That’s not the first time … Look, I have a responsibility to defend Chicago, &amp; that’s what I’m going to do.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a></p>
Chris Boese<p>Home decor can get spooky for Halloween too! You're viewing, “Who's Watching the Watcher?” today. </p><p>October is here, and with it, leaves are ready to burn bright before winter.</p><p><a href="https://www.chrisboese.photo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">chrisboese.photo</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/cat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cat</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/eyes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eyes</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>black</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/pet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pet</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/pets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pets</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/blanket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blanket</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/feline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feline</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/observation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>observation</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/curious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>curious</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/greeneyes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greeneyes</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/caturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>caturday</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/intrigue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intrigue</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/mastodonart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodonart</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/timboese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>timboese</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/boesegalleries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boesegalleries</span></a></p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@bitsnpieces" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bitsnpieces</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mastodonmigration</span></a></span> </p><p>i remember reading <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mekkaokereke</span></a></span> 's delineation of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/harassment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>harassment</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>black</span></a> folk around a year ago</p><p>essentially using nonpublic <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/replyguy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>replyguy</span></a> bullshit. other methods</p><p>you can say "well just block and move on"</p><p>but the reality is it is a degradation of your experience and enjoyment of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> and drives you from the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a></p><p>targeted harassment is not unique to mastodon</p><p>but it is a real, here. and we should care</p><p>it needs to be addressed with a beefier toolset</p>
Nonilex<p>Federal agents were “just picking up people who are <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brown</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> &amp; then checking their credentials,” <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JBPritzker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JBPritzker</span></a> said. He added: “They are the ones that are making it a war zone. They need to get out of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chicago</span></a> if they’re not going to focus on the ‘worst of the worst’, which is what the president said they were going to do.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FamilySeparation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FamilySeparation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheCrueltyIsThePoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheCrueltyIsThePoint</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MilitaryState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MilitaryState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CBP</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Gestapo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gestapo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Sturmabteilung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sturmabteilung</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Illinois" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illinois</span></a> Gov <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JBPritzker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JBPritzker</span></a> condemned the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> *enforcement* [terrorism] in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chicago</span></a>, saying the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin was not pursuing criminals but “just picking up people who are <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brown</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a>, &amp; then checking their credentials”[if they bother]. Pritzker, who previously announced that Trump was sending 300 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalGuard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalGuard</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/troops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>troops</span></a> to the city, added the federal agents “are the ones that are making it a war zone.”<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PoliceBrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceBrutality</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FamilySeparation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FamilySeparation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MilitaryState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MilitaryState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a></p>
Working Class History<p>📣 New Podcast! "5 October 2001: Malawi health workers strike" on @Spreaker <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>black</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/malawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>malawi</span></a><br><a href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/5-october-2001-malawi-health-workers-strike--67959019" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">spreaker.com/episode/5-october</span><span class="invisible">-2001-malawi-health-workers-strike--67959019</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> Dept Wednesday said it would cancel nearly $8B for hundreds of energy projects in 16 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democratic</span></a>-led states, including <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a>.</p><p>The outgoing admin of President <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> finalized a nearly $2B award in its final days to help extend the Red Line 5.5 miles to connect <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chicago</span></a> Far <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SouthSide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthSide</span></a> to the L system. The Biden admin said the project would "address <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/inequalities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inequalities</span></a> in access &amp; economic investment in predominantly <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> &amp; disadvantaged neighborhoods."</p>
VaidaAnother black outfit.<br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/black?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#black</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ootd?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ootd</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/style?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#style</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/fashion?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fashion</a>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Clearly, if one is a heterosexual white male who happens also to be a liberal talking head with entrée of which many of us can only dream, one can afford to throw 1) LGBTQ people, 2) women, 3) Black people, etc. under the bus as one calls for the kind of "respectful" "dialogue" in which Charlie Kirk engaged. </p><p>Privilege, especially unexamined privilege, is powerfully blinding. And stupefying.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/EzraKlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EzraKlein</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CharlieKirk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharlieKirk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> <br>/3</p><p><a href="https://www.wonkette.com/p/ezra-klein-committed-to-the-bit-that" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wonkette.com/p/ezra-klein-comm</span><span class="invisible">itted-to-the-bit-that</span></a></p>
FINOkoye<p>OK, here's a random Black Internet <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/klaxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>klaxon</span></a>, it shouldn't take too long...</p><p>...there's a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> project that might be coming down from the web soon and needs <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archiving</span></a> </p><p>First, if you can, please use the Internet Archive to save 2-3 pages from this website <a href="https://www.bcaexhibits.org/the-collection" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">bcaexhibits.org/the-collection</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Second +</p>
Nonilex<p>Addressing the room full of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a>’ top <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/generals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>generals</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/admirals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>admirals</span></a>, summoned from around the world w/o explanation last week, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a> defended his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firings</span></a> of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FlagOfficers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlagOfficers</span></a>, which include the top US general, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> man, &amp; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Navy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Navy</span></a>'s top admiral, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/woman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woman</span></a>.</p><p>He said the officers he relieved were part of a “broken culture”.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PeteHegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeteHegseth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> address🤬🧵</p>
Nonilex<p>A couple of years ago, Angel Jones, now a professor at a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>university</span></a> in Maryland whose work focuses on educational <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inequality</span></a>, joined the hundreds of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/professors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>professors</span></a> across the country who found themselves on the list.</p><p>Jones landed on it under the tag “racial ideology” when she published an article citing research about how distressing it is for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> people to go to work after witnessing news coverage of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/killings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>killings</span></a>.</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Kirk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kirk</span></a> certainly produced viral moments by showing up on college campuses &amp; inviting students a decade his junior to “prove” him wrong about a range of controversial topics such as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> crime rates &amp; the pitfalls of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminism</span></a>. But his rise to fame was predicated on the organization for which he served as executive director, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TurningPointUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TurningPointUSA</span></a>, &amp; its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ProfessorWatchlist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProfessorWatchlist</span></a>.</p>
Nonilex<p>But for those who were directly targeted by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Kirk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kirk</span></a>’s rhetoric, this thinking seems to place the civility of Kirk’s style of argument over the incivility of what he argued. Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> people &amp; his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> throwback views about <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated — like a position on tax rates or health care policy.</p>
Nonilex<p>who continuously claimed that “there’s a war on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/white" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>white</span></a> people in this country; who said it was “a fact” that “prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people”; who gave a platform to people who believe in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a> &amp; race *science*; who contended that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> people commit more crime than white people &amp; that the blame lies in a Black culture that accepts that Black men “impregnate women &amp; they don’t stay around”;</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Oklahoma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oklahoma</span></a>, of course, is a deeply red state. But in the wake of Kirk’s death, individuals &amp; institutions across the nation moved not just to condemn his killing &amp; political violence, but to venerate him. It was unsettling to many to see politicians from across the political spectrum speak with reverence about a man who espoused the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GreatReplacementTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatReplacementTheory</span></a>, which argues that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/white" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>white</span></a> Americans are being systematically replaced by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/multiculturalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>multiculturalism</span></a> &amp; by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brown</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a>;</p>
Nonilex<p>He’d already decided that his daughter would not participate when, to his relief, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Tulsa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tulsa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicSchools</span></a>, a district that is majority <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Latino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Latino</span></a>, &amp; several other <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Oklahoma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oklahoma</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/school" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>school</span></a> districts announced that they would not comply with the dictate. For that, they now face a state <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/investigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>investigation</span></a> for failing to commemorate the activist who Walters said was a champion of free speech, civil debate &amp; conservative &amp; Christian values.</p>
Nonilex<p>“I told her, You know, the Good Book, the Bible, says you judge a man as he lived, not as he died.”</p><p>Durant left the conversation about Kirk’s death grateful that it had prompted a father-daughter talk about his child’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/worth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worth</span></a> as a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/girl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>girl</span></a> &amp; about having empathy for those marginalized by society. He hoped that this moment of beatifying <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Kirk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kirk</span></a> had passed.</p>
Nonilex<p>Durant continued, “But I am explaining to you that the gentleman who just got shot was under the impression that you, as a young <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/woman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woman</span></a>, don’t have brain processing power. So I am explaining it to you to let you know what he said was wrong &amp; not true.”</p><p>As a Christian, Durant also felt he had to address <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Kirk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kirk</span></a>’s version of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a>, which condemned &amp; disparaged people who are <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/gay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gay</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a>.</p>
Nonilex<p>For instance, Kirk had claimed that 4 prominent &amp; successful <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackWomen</span></a>, who all went to Ivy League universities — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the fmr first lady Michelle Obama, the TV host Joy-Ann Reid &amp; fmr Rep Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas — did not “have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously” &amp; had to “go steal a white person’s slot.” He’d argued that “Black America is poorer, more murderous, more dangerous” than when <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> people were living under <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JimCrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JimCrow</span></a>.</p>