The World As I Know It

The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled in favor of evil. It has ruled in favor of a policy driven by racism and white nationalism as embodied and expressed by the Trump Regime. It has ruled in favor of what, if no remedy of law is passed by the US Congress, will be America’s Kristallnacht. With Temporary Protected Status, Haitian and Syrian refugees in the US are about to be ended by the Trump administration, a decision rooted in racism, white nationalism, and inhumanity, and nothing else. I see four kinds of people. I see those who are indifferent to it and consider it a non-issue. I ask of them, “How can forcibly repatriating people to conditions, which even the US State Department recognizes and unsafe, in their return to their nations of origin will be a likely death sentence be a matter of indifference?” How can the suffering of your fellow human beings be a matter of indifference? All that is required for evil to flourish is for good people to stand by and do noth...

I just finished reading Frederick Douglass’ oratory, “What to the Slave is The Fourth of July?”. It is a powerful speech that gave little comfort to his audience that in 1852, yet in closing he sounded a note of hope for the young Republic. His criticisms of the institution of chattel slavery struck at the heart of American ideals, and those criticisms ring true today in the face of an oppressive, authoritarian President and his regime. His criticism of religion in America, as it did then, stands in stark relief to the image that today’s self-styled “Christians” have of themselves. The evangelicals, the Dominionists, and others of their ilk, see themselves as agents of God, delivering his justice and word to a nation they claim is rooted in Christianity and biblical dogma. Instead, “They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty…”. The leaders of these evangelical cults of personality, “make religion a cold and flinty-hearted thing, having n...