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<\/p>\nYesterday was Juneteenth – a day to take a victory lap and celebrate one achievement in our history. And therefore today is a day to get back to work. Very few people can say that as well as John Pavlovitz (although the FFT, a cartoon originally published in 1876, is strong.) I hope your Juneteenth was pleasant and refreshing, since we all need to be refreshed periodically.<\/p>\n
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John Pavlovitz – Are we there yet?<\/a> The 19th – What a teacher\u2019s little red book taught the world about the Tulsa massacre<\/a> The New Yorker – The Celebration of Juneteenth in Ralph Ellison\u2019s \u201cJuneteenth\u201d<\/a> Food For Thought Yesterday was Juneteenth – a day to take a victory lap and celebrate one achievement in our history. And therefore today is a day to get back to work. Very few people can say that as well as John Pavlovitz (although the FFT, a cartoon originally published in 1876, is strong.) I hope your Juneteenth […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4837,4001,3704,3711,3734,3721,3748,4407],"class_list":["post-52167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-black-history","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-cartoon","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gop-hate","tag-gop-lies","tag-racism","tag-wokeness","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – Yesterday, a friend who is a rabbi called to tell me that the Black Lives Matter flag in his yard had been ripped down, placed against their family\u2019s car and set on fire. He and his family were of course devastated, but not just for his family but for what acts of violence like this represent and mean. In the fight against the cancer of racism, we are not there yet. But many people, like my friend and his family, people like you aren\u2019t going to rest or be driven off course. We\u2019re awake and alive in this day and that makes us dangerous to those still warring against equity…. Are we there yet? Not yet. Don\u2019t let that truth dishearten you, let it move you.
\nClck through for full column<\/a>. Not much, if anything , I can add.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – \u201cParrish\u2019s work became a vital primary source for other people\u2019s writings,\u201d journalist Victor Luckerson wrote in his recently released book, \u201cBuilt From the Fire.\u201d \u201cYet her life remained unknown, even as the facts that she had gathered \u2014 such as several firsthand accounts of airplanes being used to surveil or attack Greenwood \u2014 became foundational to the nation\u2019s understanding of the massacre. She was, quite literally, relegated to the footnotes of history.\u201d Parrish\u2019s great-granddaughter Anneliese Bruner is following in her footsteps as a writer and editor but didn\u2019t learn of her connection to Parrish \u2014 or the events of Tulsa \u2014 until she was in her 30s.
\nClick through for story<\/a>. Someone recently said that MAGA Republicans have the minds of toddlers – up to and including an obsession with genitalia. How many violent crimes have been based on lies involving genitalia?<\/p>\n
\nQuote – “We were owned and faced with the awe-inspiring labor of transforming God\u2019s Word into a lantern so that in the darkness we\u2019d know where we were. Oh God hasn\u2019t been easy with us because He always plans for the loooong haul. He\u2019s looking far ahead and this time He wants a well-tested people to work his will. . . . He\u2019s tired of untempered tools and half-blind masons! Therefore, He\u2019s going to keep on testing us against the rocks and in the fires. He\u2019s going to plunge us into the ice-cold water. And each time we come out we\u2019ll be blue and as tough as cold-blue steel! Ah yes! He means for us to be a new kind of human. Maybe we won\u2019t be that people but we\u2019ll be a part of that people, we\u2019ll be an element in them, amen!”
\nClick through for details<\/a>. I hope you can stand one more article about Juneteenth. Ralph Ellison is best known for “The Invisible Man.” When he died, he left a good deal of unfinished work, including “Juneteenth,” which was put together by an editor, but most of it is pure Ellison. If you are paywalled out, I’ll send it in an email if you let me know.<\/p>\n
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