NOW PLAYING == #NoKings3 San Francisco 3/28/26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFkAbyKqfwU

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NOW PLAYING == No Kings Flagship Rally - MN State Capitol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_GHFjRaOoo #news #protest #activism #ICEOutForGood #NOKINGS3 #activist #NoTrump #ShutItDown #vsn #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #PEACE #NoWar #SupportIndccependentMedia #left #progressive #immigration #antiracism #GetUpStandUp #GetBusy #DoNotObey

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NOW PLAYING == No Kings Flagship Rally - MN State Capitol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_GHFjRaOoo

#news #protest #activism #ICEOutForGood #NOKINGS3 #activist #NoTrump #ShutItDown #vsn #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #PEACE #NoWar #SupportIndccependentMedia #left #progressive #immigration #antiracism #GetUpStandUp #GetBusy #DoNotObey

Check out the recording of the No Kings 3 speech today by Dr Ibram X. Kendi in uptown Charlotte! It starts at 31:09 of our YouTube livestream recording, this is a direct link:

https://www.youtube.com/live/eUgSHrtypBM?si=83XOB_nJC2qXY0l6?t=1869

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NOW PLAYING == #NOKINGS DAY 3.0: BIGGER & MADDER! with Joy Reid, Don Lemon, & Jim Acosta and occasional cut-ins from #NoKingsReisterstown in #Maryland (Coverage runs 1-4 PM EDT; on our way to protest location now)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epd8thNWQrk

#news #protest #activism #ICEOutForGood #NOKINGS3 #activist #NoTrump #ShutItDown #vsn #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #PEACE #NoWar #SupportIndccependentMedia #left #progressive #immigration #antiracism #GetUpStandUp #GetBusy #DoNotObey

Going to see Ibram X. Kendi tonight to talk about his new book Chain of Ideas. Excited for it!

#DateNight #StayWoke #Antiracism

Christianity primed white people to feel guilty when certain Pavlovian bells ring.

Accused? Wrongdoing even subtly implied? Guilt! Shame!

Then, if it's a respected authority doing the implying (be it parent or priest), we're primed to submit.

If we don't respect the authority of the "accuser," well, were primed to see them as the enemy in the all-or-nothing good vs evil war. "My authorities haven't called that a sin so who is this person anyway??" And we lash out. At women, POC, queers, disabled, and often, even ourselves.

What, you're white but never were Christian? Sorry, but you were programmed this way, too. (If you feel mad at me, that's the programming.)

Christianity's way out from guilt and shame is impossible. It doesn't work. It's designed to make you feel forever ashamed and in debt to Jesus — or rather, the religious authorities who represent him. That's how they get you.

We aren't allowed to emotionally mature to know how to handle our own feelings when we've done wrong. We're forever dependent children on the religion. We go to confession, do the penitence, feel a few days of relief, then go back to feeling guilty. No matter how well-meaning any particular clergy, this is by design.

Now suddenly here's these people I don't respect out of unexamined implicit bias dumping more crap on me.

Aren't I bad enough? Haven't I submitted enough? What am I supposed to do about it?

I'm hamstringed. My white brain has been lobotomized wrt how to handle this. But also, I've been told by trusted authorities that I'm not a racist, so I'm not!!! Out comes the Karen.

Colonialism=Christianity=Corporatism

It's all the same system.

Freeing ourselves from this system means freeing those whose oppression we enable.

Because it's all the same thing.

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