That's Right: The Military Made Me Woke, Here's How
"Here's a little story about how the military radicalized me. My political journey has been deeply entwined with my environmental journey. My zero waste journey has looked different from others, but we all end up in the same spot in the end. So, what radicalized you? Share your eco story below!"
Some years ago, when I was academic dean at Philander Smith College (now university) in Little Rock, I hired Pat to chair the psychology department there, and then discovered that she attended Ouachita Baptist University when my uncle was academic v.-p. there. My aunt was her English teacher at Ouachita, and she was in school with a number of my cousins, including two who are now Baptist ministers.
The words in /1 above are found around the 1.00.30 mark in the video.
I don't actually do church any longer. As I told my friend Wendell today after he reminded my husband and me that we always have a home at his church, like a lot of gay folks, we carry a certain among of heavy baggage when it comes to church. We bear scars that are in many ways unique to the LGBTQ community, in connection with church.
Even so, we're deeply grateful to our friends Wendell and Pat and to the loving people of New Millennium.
"Guess what? God is woke. You can't have Resurrection Sunday without having a woke Jesus. … The wokeness of God is what we celebrate on Easter Sunday."
Thus says my friend Wendell Griffen, pastor of New Millennium Baptist church in Little Rock (Arkansas, USA). I was invited to New Millennium today by Wendell and his wife Pat as their newest granddaughter was welcomed and celebrated by the church with a dedication ceremony.
like: if you feel more offended by pink hair than by whatever the hell this is - idk, man. we are not the same.
my 2 cents about this #woke idiocy.
#woke is a word that comes from the black experience, black culture, i feel even weird using it as a white person who doesn't have that experience, it is a word that is loaded of meaning for a specific group of people.
what MORONS think woke is: politically confused 15 year olds on tiktok with 4 hair colors who change their political ideology every other day (which is BTW also OK at that age, FFS, let kids be kids, it is healthy to rebel as a kid!).
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