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• Citizen’s Creed

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 156
  Our Father, who art in Washington Government be thy Name Thy Kingdom come For thy will, we have done in America as it is across the world Give us this day our deserved social plot and God forgive us for lapping at our Master’s hand as we must condemn those who do not Deliver us, Lords, from every Freedom and grant ...
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• Education Rather Than Removal

  
  Civil War Memory — Authority: 471
  I‘ve never been a fan of tearing down our Civil War monuments because I tend to think that such a move only works to make us feel better.  Although the removal of monuments reflects the very same political, economic, and social conditions that led to their being initially placed in prominent spots it almost always ...
  13 hours ago

• Brazil: Brazil honors 17th-century anti-slavery leader Zumbi dos Palmares

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 489
  Over 12 states in Brazil yesterday celebrated the Day of Black Consciousness in honor of the countrys 17th-century anti-slavery leader Zumbi dos Palmares. The Peoples Daily reports, that in cities such as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, people held parades against racism, discrimination, prejudice, homophobia, sexism ...
  15 hours ago

• Please Do Better, Black Folk!

  
  THE FURY — Authority: 501
  I’m done. I truly don’t have the time or the patience for this. You all have a blessed weekend! [via Skinny Black Guy ]
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• The Emancipation Proclamation

  
  The Scoop on History-APUSH and more — Authority: 128
  Five days after the “victory” at Antietam, Lincoln changed the purpose of the Civil War with his issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. With these few words, Lincoln changed the reason for fighting from the legalistic “preservation of the Union” to the moral and ethical imperative of “freedom and ...
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• American Bloodshed: Internal Affairs

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 549
  The earth was soaked with American blood as an unnecessary war took place in the mid 19th century. Today the numbers of casualties in the American Civil War continues to reign over every other war that America was involved in. Fathers fought against sons and brothers rivaled against brothers. Family members met in the ...
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• How do you think slavery in our past affects how white and african americans think today?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 168
  How do you think slavery in our past affects how white and african americans think today? its in my social studies class help me please thanks!
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• Richard Rorty on Human Rights and Sympathy

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 434
  Richard Rorty ( source ) Richard Rorty has an interesting take on human rights. If we want universal acceptance of and respect for human rights, we shouldn’t try to argue about it. We shouldn’t attempt to work out rational justifications of human rights, or arguments that will convince people that human ...
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• Having "Cojones"

  
  The Silver People Chronicle — Authority: 112
  The serious lack of communicationbetween men and women still existstoday and it is probably more markedeven with all the access to clinical help.Image.Still a frustrated teenage writer living in country of little or no communication between people, above all, men and women, I was emerging during a time when manhood ...
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• How banks push people into debt

  
  nikkypals.com — Authority: 166
  take advantage of people who don’t think through the prospect of repaying debt (or who have no other option) and allow them to make minimum payments each month for YEARS thereby paying back many, many times what they initially borrowed. Watch “Secret History of the Credit Card” on pbs.org for background on how ...
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• Virginia and Its Switch From Indentured Servitude to Slavery

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 549
              The Virginia that we know today could not have existed without the help of the early settlers who constructed the building blocks of a developing colony. Through trial and error they learned a lot from their surroundings such as the peaceful and not so peaceful whom they lived around with. They ...
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• Slavery – 2JS class assembly. Complete video for download

  
  Year Two Blog — Authority: 123
  Here it is… What do you think? To download, click the “Vimeo” link at the bottom right of the screen. This will take you to the download site. Next scroll down. You should see a grey section in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen which says “download”. You need to register with the website. It’s ...
  2 days ago

• The Virulent Cancer of Soft-Despotism

  
  Contra Celsum — Authority: 134
  Bureaucrats To Do Home Inspections A recent article in the Times of London tells us the next step the British government is taking to usher in a better world. We promise you that it will eventually be adopted in New Zealand as well. There is an ideological logic to these things that is relentless and will not be ...
  2 days ago

• Shopping and Saving the World: A Guide to Feel-Good Gift Giving (Part I)

  
  Washington Area Women's Foundation — Authority: 120
  Proceeds from this RIJI Green bag go to victims of human trafficking. Believe it or not, I’ve already started my holiday shopping. I know what you’re thinking: I’ve been suckered by Corporate America with their October Christmas decorations, and their pre-Thanksgiving Christmas carol playing, and their ...
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• DEALING WITH ANTI-SEMITISM FROM NEOCON/ZIONIST DISTORTED IDEOLOGY

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 130
  I just posted the following comment over on OpEdNews on the post there entitled, " Dealing with Anti-Semitism from a Jewish Perspective ." When I saw the headline of this article, I thought to myself, does he mean anti-Semites or anti-Jews or anti-Zionists as in anti-Jabotinsky-type terrorists? I see now that you ...
  2 days ago

• Minority Death Match

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 746
  Minority Death Match: Jews, Blacks, And The "Post-Racial" Presidency by By Naomi Klein. An interesting look at the failure of the two United Nations Durban conferences on racism — and a whole lot of other stuff. A critique of a portion of the essay by Joel Kovel. [ The article originally appeared in the ...
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• Human Rights: Slavery alive and well in the muslim world

  
  Infidels Are Cool — Authority: 620
  But it’s just cultural right? It has nothing to do with islam. Just ignore the history, and that the pedophile Muhammad himself kept slaves. - If you disagree, you’re racist/an islamophobe!! (liberal/Obamaton zombie mantra). MIDEAST: HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, FILIPINO MAIDS ‘SLAVES’ ( ANSAmed ) – ...
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• Does slavery exist today?

  
  Year Two Blog — Authority: 123
  This is a question that lots of us in 2JS have been thinking about. It is a hard question to answer. John and Sam put it very well. This is what they said: JOHN: Even though the slave trade was abolished in 1865, some people are still forced to work. SAM: Children are forced to work to make money so that they can ...
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• 15 Year Old Egyptian Convert to Christianity Sends Plea to Obama

  
  Vlad Tepes — Authority: 149
  hat tip to R.E.A.L   Cairo (AINA) — 15-year-old Egyptian girl Dina el-Gowhary, who converted from Islam to Christianity, has sent a plea to President Obama, complaining of mistreatment by the Egyptian Government and asking for his mediation. “Mr President Obama,” she writes, “we are a minority in Egypt. ...
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• Wrestling with texts at a midweek Eucharist

  
  boo to a goose — Authority: 100
  When I read the texts for tonight my first response was O Lord why these texts? I bring my wrestling so you too can wrestle… Luke 13: 22-30 Jesus is asked ‘will only a few be saved’ and we want him to answer, ‘No everyone will be saved. God is love. God is not willing that any should perish’. But Jesus ...
  3 days ago

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