Moment or Movement: A National Dialogue on Identity,
Empowerment, and Justice for All, a symposium by F. King Alexander, LSU
President, Monday, October 3, 2016 through Tuesday, October 4, 2016.
In his
invitation printed in the symposium program, LSU President Alexander explains
the mission of research, education, and outreach toward “healing as a city” and
“understanding as a society,” relating to the summer of 2016.
My
impression is that this event was in no way national in scope and subjects. It
seemed more an infomercial for some
LSU departments, the media, BRAC, some politicians, and especially two local entrepreneurs:
Michael Victorian and Raymond Jetson, respectively. I feel that freedom of
speech was uninvited. Also, Southern University[1],
some black citizens, and much of the non-black community were slighted. It was
shocking to hear women giggle when featured speaker Don Lemon used code words to
perhaps extol fornication. I am grateful to have met some very nice people. Some
participants have interests that are common to mine, such as broadly defined
civic safety and security. A concert by the LSU School of Music and Dramatic
Arts was unforgettable. However, I hope future president’s events are more
open-minded for civic morality. My concerns during these, the best of times,
were not addressed.
Perhaps
the next symposium will reexamine Dr. Norman Francis’s noble attendance, in the
words I recall, “so that participants could meet a person who overcame the
oppression that followed reconstruction.” Perhaps segue to the possibilities
for Paul Taylor’s “mosaics” to overcome psychological oppression like Don
Lemon’s robogiggle for “slip it in,” if I heard correctly. Coach students in
fidelity to the indisputable facts of reality, and follow Dr. Francis’ choice: to
be an American rather than African-American, if I understood him. Address all
aspects of current opportunities the people, including professors, have.
Aside: On arrival, I met a man, Reggie, from New Iberia.
With permission to talk about my passion, I told him I was there to promote
private-integrity as private-liberty-with-civic-morality. He seemed to be
cautiously interested. Later, I said or waved “hello” a couple times, but we
never spoke again. Since then, through collaboration with William Bonin,[2]
I revised “private-integrity” to “public-integrity.” These are noble yet achievable
public objectives.
In this
effort to record my thoughts about a two-day experience, I request the reader’s
patience to scan the phrases I gleaned from each one-hour panel discussion or
other event then shared experiences, observations, and research to verify my
notes. Please keep in mind my objective is to promote iterative collaboration
for public-integrity
as private-liberty-with-civic-morality rather than domestic
psychological-combat to establish temporal dominant-opinion.
Journalism and Social Justice with Chad Sbadie, Jim
Engster, Bryanj Tole, Sylvia Weatherspoon, and moderator Len Apcar
Key
ideas: Journalists discussed their role in social justice: civil conversation, budget
restraints, don’t tell customers what to think, trained against emotionalism but
flood was too much, cell phone makes fact-checks imperative, must partner with
users of social media, The Advocate has no political agenda in crime reporting,
Sterling event stirred racial-diversity interest on campus, a modern slavery
system is one side of the story, tale of two cities everywhere in the USA and
beyond.
I made
the statement that “social justice” was a mind-controlling phrase: “social”
implies a norm that a “civilized” person conforms to. However, whereas “civic
justice” addresses connected people living in the same time and place. I asked
the panel to address my statement. Apcar asked the panel, and Jim Engster
responded, “I agree,” then added, I think, Marshall
McLuhan had written a book about the power of words and phrases in broadcast
thought.
Aside: Met Lauren Cooper; does Bible condone rather than “live with”
slavery---free even though slave, read Steven Covey on civic vs social. Met
Paul Baier, law prof. Both recalled my civic writing.
BR
Summer of 2016: A Historical Perspective, Chris Tyson, Law Prof.
Tyson
had two editorials in NYT re Sterling, “respectful” conversation with
septuagenarian about Sterling “execution,” history from BR a small town.[3] [4]
Q&A:
John Nolan made a pitch for RDA funding.[5]
I
challenged Tyson to review the history from the Code of Hammurabi, when slavery
was an institution and then have an appreciative conversation with me. He said
he would, but did not make contact, and Mrs. Cooper noticed that. I think Baier
said he appreciated my comments.
Movement Beyond the Moment, College
of Human Sciences & Education panel
expanded beyond Roland Mitchell and Lori Martin to Wesley Church (Social Work)
and Michelle Massé.
Key
phrases: erroneous “only white on this panel,” how to form community, can’t
judge a person by appearance or assumption, summer shaking but not new, don’t
overlook human capital, “patriotic protests” an excuse for risking reputation
and perhaps safety, “charity” is not equality[6] and justice, Jetson’s Urban Congress April 2016[7], “black” repeated a lot by Martin while “African-American”
spoken by Church, Southern students against police more than LSU students[8], getting and spending wastes power, some feminist statements.
Lots of buzz words, e.g., what’s the meaning of “LSU doing a great job for
black men”?
I
thought this presentation was overly proud of its community work for blacks as
opposed to civic work for all people in need. Also, the leadership seems to be
more about materialism than civic morality. There was some inter-department
bickering that should not have been expressed let alone observed by a civic
people. Dr. Martin seems not to admit that white people exist let alone have
any civic value, IMO.[9]
Side conversation with Mrs.
Cooper. Perhaps Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits expresses civic morality. Perhaps the
Bible expresses how to live with slavery rather than condones it (my claim).
A Summer in Crisis: BR and Social
Media with Lance Porter and Rui Wang
Key
phrases: social media panel, world frequency of “Baton Rouge” or “black lives
matter” using Crimson Hexagon social media metrics, more national attention to
shootings than floods, use hashtags, use @mentions, activists load up sites so
data may not represent the public, WordClouds.com and infomous.com free word
trend study sites, homophile movement, clout. Young people get their news from
social media, data follows demographics.
It
seems to me social-media-trending influences more than informs participants.
For example, I doubt many of the people who know about Mr. Sterling’s death
know his police record or the caller’s possible motives for requesting the
police. The fact that the fed has not spoken is interesting. I prefer detailed
sites such as quora.com and libertylawsite.org and Wall Street Journal rather
than public-opinion-media beyond my hometown newspaper. Also, “National Affairs”
quarterly has in-depth, evidence-based opinion.
Public Opinion about Race Relations
and Law Enforcement in Louisiana with Michael Henderson and Martin Johnson
plus some added panelists whose names I did not learn.
Key
ideas: city stats came from BRAF annual report; Louisiana Surveys by Reilley
Center. Black’s opinions vs white’s opinions similar in all areas except law
enforcement, with a negative 0.32 among blacks on a scale of 5, where both
races rate service around 3.5 (not too bad as noted by Frederick Peterbark). In
other words, black rating seems approving at 3.3 of 5. There was a big gap in
Spring, 2015.[10] Race relations declined during 2014, 15, and 16; blacks
perceive more racism than whites do. A professor’s policeman-husband told story
about a 16 year old who fled his car out of fear of police. “Public opinion
drives public policy.”
My
thoughts: this would-be opinion-directing group is so lost in their data and
analytical tools they can’t relate to common sense events in Baton Rouge,
specifically a long list of black separatist speakers and events.[11] The law-enforcement event of the Baton Rouge summer of 2016 seems
promoted by Alinsky-Marxist organizers (AMO)[12], who strategized in 2015 for the inevitable event, but thanks
to Louisiana law enforcement did not achieve the expected property damage and
threats to residents and AMO-soldiers. This LSU symposium may be among the AMO motivations---an
infomercial for their causes, intentionally or not.
When
I objected to “Public opinion drives public policy,” a woman rebuked me to say
I should take some courses in sociology. I responded that humankind is
deliberately (slowly) evolving a civic
culture that provides broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security rather than
dominant opinion. Afterwards, she tried to rudely interrupt my conversation
with Frederick Peterbark, LSU. I asked her to allow me to finish the
conversation then converse with me, but she did not wait around.
Michael
Henderson kindly responded that my objections to “public opinion drives public
policy” go deep into the debate about the basis for civic morality, or
something to that effect. I was grateful for his measured response. Eventually,
he accepted my card, and I hope we iteratively collaborate.
Business Leadership Forum with
Patrick Mulhearn, Charlis D’Agostino, Joe Delpit, Dima Ghawi, Ann Trappey, and
Adam Knapp.
Key
words: more fairness, coming together after the flood, either into politics or
out of business[13], we care about BR, sold on personal closeness here, encourage
employees to be into politics, “Conscience Capitalism.” Highly educated work
force lessens diversity, only six percent STEM graduates are black, need to
work with black men, small business is difficult no matter skin color. Working
with kids from Gardere and additionally support business there, civic morality cannot
be from up down, shocked with all black service for all white City Club, almost
all at LSU game white [really?], Louisiana 49th-50th
state but people love it so how do we move the needle from 50th,
long tedious sermon on one bad apple in law enforcement [there’s one bad apple
in all things], money talks, can business help K-12, Oct 25 Main Library[14], surprised with resistance to small business help at Southern
U.
I
stated that I had volunteered to work with black groups but they made me feel
they cannot accept input from a white man. It is well known that isolation does
not allow cultures to develop as fast as collaboration and if Trappey’s work
with black men confirmed my experience. She responded that their idea was that
black boys would look up to black leaders, and it makes sense to her.[15] However, D’Agostino seemed to share my doubts. Also, Southern
strikes me as an isolationist society. Perhaps I am the problem, but none of my
efforts to communicate there have panned out. Perhaps people don’t trust me:
are they stereotyping me as white-skinned, male, or old? Would that be racism,
sexism, and ageism?
A woman
approached me afterwards and said that she works with 100 Black men and not
working with whites is not their intent. I gave her my card and tried to talk
more, but she had to leave to meet Mr. Paul Taylor at the airport. I saw her
the next day, and tried to talk more, but could not.
Government Leadership Forum with
Angie Rogers and Zack Faircloth hosting Congressman Garret Graves
Key
words: Voting is Rogers’ passion. Louisiana has 86% registration and 68%
presidential voting. Many ways to communicate with Garret Graves, for example,
Facebook live from cell phone or desktop. Many objections to national debt:
$68,000 per person or $1.2 to 1.4 million per newborn. Mr. Sterling’s death: 1)
why not obey the police?, 2) why no Taser affect; too big? Drugs? Need better
technology?, 3) adult selling CDs at 2:00 AM; we need to change that; Go to
church and see segregation; need to change that.[16] Flood: when disaster strikes, there are no strangers. I handed
Graves a note about private-integrity with my phone number. He said, “Nice to
see you,” as though he meant it.
Reception. I talked with three
ladies who did not really want an intruder. They seemed to be LSU employees.
Met a young
man from New Orleans: Ry’yan, as in not just another Ryan. Both he and the
woman with him took my blog card.
Challenging Ideas and Stakeholder
Sensibilities with James Stoner, A. R. P. “Ravi”Rau, and Dayne Sherman,
moderated by Kevin Cope.
Key
words: beauty of physics, free speech, public blogging, academic white towers,
authority rather than license, protecting students seems negative---let
challenge teach them, scholarly propriety, sports a classroom, Mike VI an icon
of freedom, the library instead of the cell-phone, recovering James H. Cone
book[17] from garbage for civil order, free thought never popular,
income gap, education gap, bridging the gap getting harder, academic freedom
cannot count on public opinion,[18] scholar vs public gap, racial gap, administrative gap, departmental
disrespect and competition. Progressives intimidate the older generation,
creating a listening gap.
I
stated that each member of the panel is precious to my work and would like more
collaboration. I appealed for help in creating a civic event to celebrate
Constitution Day; write all the time that everything emerges from physics as
energy, mass and spacetime; and actively blog. Only one of the three responses
indicated scholarly regard for citizens as equal persons, at least this one---it’s
like a person in his eighth decade, married five decades in a family of five,
with fifteen US patents and industrial, chemical reactors that will no blow up
is less qualified for civic collaboration than a student in his or her second
decade or beginning the third decade. Perhaps professors are just not civic
minded enough to collaborate with citizens. There must be an explanation.
The Other Schools Across Town
with Matthew Lee, Thomas Miller, Matthew Ware, and Mary Jarzabek.
Key
words: Maxine Crump’s reparations drive a good starting point; racial gaps have
many aspects, isolation by choice; privileged blacks get privileged education;
coaching toward motivation helps failing students; losing incredible talent by
not educating children; segregation from whites.
I
started to establish that European-American colonists experienced freedom from
oppression in their home countries, established liberty to live according to
personal preference, then declared they were Americans and demanded national
independence to preserve that liberty. My intent was to ask what could be added
to the list---freedom, liberty, and national independence---to inspire
African-Americans to also declare they are Americans. However, two events
interrupted my freedom of speech:
Mary asked where I was going then would not agree that I should stop. With
Mary’s interruption, a black guy in the back declared he had heard my speech
yesterday. I had not made the speech before. Thomas Miller claimed I was off
topic, not knowing the topic. I stopped. Afterwards, I tried to talk to Miller
and others to complete my story, but no one cared to listen. Mary apologized in
the hallway, saying she was under pressure, and I said, “That’s OK: an awkward
situation ended.” [Perhaps at the last paragraph of the symposium Dr. Norman
Francis spoke the word I was looking for: Declared that he chose to be an American. I hope I understood Francis.]
Frederick
Peterbark, may have referred to other issues when he said, “Each snowflake must
take the same test. But they need a like role model.” Maybe the saying is “Even
though snowflakes are unique, it’s also true that snowflakes are all alike.”[19]
Other
audience input: Annette Yancey stated that LSU colors are more welcomed at
restaurants than Southern colors. A drama professor said open doors do not
attract blacks. Miller said the idea that blacks choose Southern because they
can’t make it at LSU is false, rather they choose Southern for its excellence.
Take advantage of LSU’s chubbiness, built up over a long history. The need to work
often takes students past the six year limit on TOPS. Need more Georgetown-like
reparations. Need more commercials; Grambling is well advertised locally.
Concern that Jay Dardenne wants to consolidate the 14 higher education
institutions---close the ones not needed.
Environments for Advancement with Brian Salvatore,
Lillian Bridwll-Bowles, Pamela Blanchard, and Richard Shaw, and moderator Kevin
Cope.
Key
words: 4000 students at LSU-S, LSU highest ozone pollution center, fought barge
cleaning, NBR subjected to pollution for years, promote environmental justice,
build an environmental building, coastal roots program, educating 2nd
graders during last 18 years, math-methods classes at Ryan Elementary, once a
barge exploded near Southern and the students escaped to the LSU field house,
Lt. Gen. Honore’ claims Southern the most polluted campus in America, restore
obsolete buildings to accommodate students, recycling not working, need
insulation, Scotlandville High to get environmental science, UL to get green
award, grass roots more effective than top down like FEMA, need child-teacher
leadership.
I
commented that my experiences with coursera.org were positive and the future
campus might involve computerized instruction with class-time spent in close
dialogue between professor and students. The comment seemed well received by at
least one on the panel.
Aside: I met a man from Auburn, Alabama and member of
an LSU foundation and talked about private-integrity [now public-integrity] as
private-liberty-with-civic-morality. He mentioned an FM radio show, “Integrity
Matters,” with online streaming. He parted with, “It’s all good,” a Christian
hint.[20]
The Next America: Demographic Change in the 21st
Century with Paul Taylor and Pew Research Center
Key
words: Kenya, America on the way to
non-white, 2014 superbowl commercials about LGBT and mixed-race families,
immigration 1840-1889 & 1890-1919 89% European vs 1965 50% L.A. with 27%
Asian; mixed-race newlyweds 2.4% in 1960 vs 15.9% in 2016; what are children of
biracial children; original sin of slavery 400 years old [1700 years ago if sin[21]]
and yet not reformed; SSI 1960 5.1 worker/beneficiary ratio vs 2.0 in 2030;
millennials expectations 6% benefits at current rate vs 39% less vs 51% none;
data on millennials vs generation X (above age 36) vs boomers (48) vs silents
(65); wealth discourages marriage as under 35 have $10,500 vs over 65 have $210,000;
births to unwed mothers OECD data; in USA teenage arrests and HS dropouts and
teen births on the decline from 1993 till 2012; people living in
multigenerational households 32 million in 1940 vs 57 million 2012; Facebook
friends 511 vs 304 vs 183 vs 79 respectively for the four groups mentioned
above; trusting others 19% vs 31% vs 37% vs 40%; support for same sex marriage;
next generation mosaics not millennials; the American dream has lessened and it
is up to us to change that. I bought Taylor’s book.[22]
Taylor’s
was an awesome presentation, with so many graphs and confident projections into
the future as though Pew Research is prescient. I almost felt like, as long as
we have Pew, we don’t really need the objective truth. There is something new
in the world, and that is the information and data-handling exponentiality empowered
by the Internet and maturing digital age. However, I doubt that the
interdependency of the generations is obsolete, even if the younger generation
currently thinks so. Fidelity may always be the essence of successful living.
Karl Marx, the economist, predicted that humankind’s ingenuity would lessen and
capitalism would inevitably end. So far, his prediction seems a failure. I
doubt Pew Research as a predictor.
Meet & Greet with President’s Millennial Scholars I
tried to tell two or three different young people about my theory regarding
freedom from oppression, liberty to live, independent nation, and perhaps
perseverance, but my presentation and question did not click with anyone.
Love & Justice: A Reflection on Identity,
Empowerment, and Justice for All Through Music and the Spoken Word with
students and faculty off College of Music & Dramatic Arts and LSU A
Cappella Choir.
The
dramatic performances were well done. The solos were well performed and
dramatic in effect. The performance of "The Fruit of Silence"
by P. Vāsks gave me a good, streaming cry like I had not enjoyed in years. The
wonder we experienced is mimicked[23]---without
the moving, live LSU voices in the rotunda.
Aside: I met Corey Green, a music person and graduate
student in counselling. I think I met him before at the recital hall. Did not
achieve connection about my subjects.
Moment with Don Lemon and “community” panel Michael
Victorian, Raymond Jetson, F. King Alexander, and Julie Baxter Payer.
Key
words: after the summer of 2016 what’s our role, America made blacks criminals
to keep them slaves, I am a black American living in NYC where people happily
try to “slip it in” if I heard correctly (giggles by ladies on the front row), movie
“13th” reference no slavery except for criminality,[24]
must personally understand our history, not all Americans have a choice as
expressed in a spiritual,[25]
statistics on shootings and crime, human connections among all, with 100 black
men what they see is what they’ll be, national founding 1963 locally for
mentoring & education & health and wellness & economic development,
forced into renewed path of progress to recognize a wound so as to heal by
confronting the ugly dynamic, American political fear of change.
Alexander: what should students do
to change fear? Lemon, I recall, “Stop listening to us old people”[26];
America doesn’t close borders but welcomes; old people separate people[27];
don’t shut off free speech. Victorian: embrace who you are; respect others;
recall someone helped you. Jetson: understand where you are and its importance;
receive then pass down; social change always led by young people; urban-congress.artimization.net/
; vote.
I tried
to comment: free speech wouldn’t alienate the older generation but also would
not promote fornication, if that is what “slip it in” refers to. My hand was
not recognized. Also, it was impossible to get Lemon’s attention in the
photo-op afterwards.
Movement with Dr. Norman Francis
Key
words: 85 years old from Lafayette son
of a barber therefore accustomed to public talk, grew up under Plessy vs
Ferguson[28], lost human capital but some survived, teachers believed Norman
could learn under high standards, common sense that is uncommon in 2016, trust
yourself and your god and your country, brother was first black bishop rather
than a lawyer who moved into education: Why is our country in this condition?
Plessy was done to end reconstruction; 1954 Brown covered education only, good
black teachers were moved to white schools, education the way out of poverty,
unequal playing field, gap is widening, poverty growing like a cancer, need
more money for black education, all in this boat together. John Gordon in 1960
wrote, “America does not know what it wants but knows it does not like what it
has.” Rudi Lumbard, freedom rider, A. P. Tureaud, in audience; dad filed
lawsuit for A.P. to attend LSU; LSU appealed, so A. P. went to Xavier. Book
about poverty not black-skin, “A More Noble Cause.”[29] Educate self on coming legislation so as to vote your
preference, smart in common sense, serve before you lead, know where you are
going and have faith that you will get there, equitability not the same as
equal, spend on reconciliation. Book “The Strange Career of Jim Crowe.”[30] Gap filled with mythology. Writers do not know the experience.
I agreed to speak tonight so you could see someone who came through a system
that tried to remove my dignity. “I am an American. I want America to continue
to be great. I choose to be here.” Starting 1855 blacks were oppressed. Xavier
is No. 1 in the country for PhD’s. The talent is there: must use it. Book, “The
Perfect Storm.”[31] If not now when, if not here where, if not you who? Need
integration for reconciliation.[32] Loyola left pharmacy in 1960 when legislature passed law
requiring a separate building for pharmacy. Francis built a building in 2
years, and got no white students for 3 years. Now 20% white.
Reception:
someone approached me and wanted to exchange cards at a table. There, I met two
others including Lorraine Dickerson. She is a local activist and demonstrator
over the Sterling death, and we now hope for iterative collaboration.
Disappointments: active
questions were not addressed:
o
Reports to protective
child care agencies involving 6.6 million children in 2014[36] a more worthy cause for LSU attention, IMO.
·
James Meredith’s
complaint[37] that since his 1966 march the black race has not taken care of duty and responsibility. What does his
statement mean to him?
o
The influence of the
“check cashing” portion of MLK’s 1963 dream speech
·
Can black Americans
who descended from slaves ever appreciate white Americans, who:
o
Descended from colonists
who discovered freedom from European oppression
o
discovered liberty
to live according to personal preference yet face the facts
o
declared
independence as Americans in their states rather than colonists
§ with help from France won independence from England
§ wrote a constitution for the USA
o
We may establish
public-integrity as private-liberty-with-civic-morality. Need to be Americans
to accomplish public-integrity, IMO.
·
Will there be
public-integrity, or can a nation divide on
o
black liberation
theology
o
black supremacy based
on Africa, the mother country
o
black power
o
Is slavery, after
all, an institution of black God?
·
The history of
slavery from the beginnings of written history shows that the European
colonists were victims, yet their ancestors neither dwell on the past nor
demand anything from the perpetrators of the past. The colonists’ ancestors
choose to be Americans. Can African-Americans choose to be Americans?
·
How can America ask
immigrants to assimilate when Americans do not resolve the millennia-old
conflict introduced by slavery?
An
appreciative symposium might address issues like the ones this person ponders.
[1] Perhaps
the Southern University administration declined an invitation to sponsor
sessions.
[2]
Online at theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_c4331eda-800b-11e6-bffd-0779ed43ea0e.html?sr_source=lift_amplify
. Find my comment and Bonin’s response, then keep reading our thread to the end
to find “public-integrity,” and why.
[3]
Online at nytimes.com/2016/07/12/opinion/the-city-where-i-live-and-where-alton-sterling-died.html?_r=0
[4]
Online at nytimes.com/2016/07/19/opinion/a-slain-officers-example-for-us-all.html
[5] Online
at ebrra.org/main/
[6]
Notice Dr. Francis’ similar comment.
[7] Online
at brac.org/brac/events.asp
[8] Is that surprising since Southern University hosts black
separatist speakers who urge young people to demonstrate against law
enforcement? See for example, nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2015/02/jeremiah_wright_tells_a_southe.html
[9]
Note: that is my impression and should not be taken as my expression of the
objective truth.
[10] Was that because aggressive black leaders visited Baton Rouge in
2015? See theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/faith/article_0267ba79-4a92-552a-aaeb-ecc5df56348a.html
[11] Some of them are covered in my essay, “Open Letter to Baton
Rouge Leaders,” at cipbr.blogspot.com.
[12]
AMO emerged from the past with three major events: 1) the 1969 formation of what
became the Congressional Black Caucus, 2) James H. Cone’s 1969 work on black
power and liberation theology, and 3) Saul Alinky’s 1971 work on public
disruptions using recruits whose passions could erupt into psychological
violence, property damage and personal injury.
[13] Private
corollary: either public-integrity or no private-liberty.
[14]
Online at investors.brac.org/events/brac-special-engagement-featuring-the-urban-congress-on-african-american-males-320/details $15 fee excludes my choice to collaborate,
but I will continue to support public libraries.
[15]
This is another evidence that segregation by black-skin-color is a matter of
choice.
[16]
People’s choice about who to associate with in church is a private, cultural
matter and not for collaboration with Congressional representatives.
Congressman Graves and his entire staff are against my work to get religious preference
out of public meetings. I work for public-integrity as
private-liberty-with-civic-morality.
[17]
Perhaps the book was Black Theology and Black
Power, 1969.
[18]
This statement provides an interesting perspective on the Mass Communication
panel’s urge that public opinion determines public policy.
[20]
Online at facebook.com/fmtalk959/
.
[21]
Constantine required a Christian Bible and it was canonized during 300 AD to
400 AD including chapters that seem to condone slavery. Thus the sin of slavery
as a Christian first principle is 1700 years old. Luther could have corrected
it 500 years ago. Black church can help make certain the error is not repeated.
[22]
Paul Taylor and the Pew Research Center, The Next America, 2014, 2015. The Pew
Research Center.
[23]
Online at youtube.com/watch?v=pxrNyY5AxTU
or equally beautiful at youtube.com/watch?v=rdcuF6yfnEA .
[24]
Online I watched the history-opinion movie “13th”, not “Thirteen”
whether 1997 or 2003.
[25]
Online at youtube.com/watch?v=5OT6kqboD8I .
[26]
Lemon hardly qualifies as “old people,” but what I heard is a slick way of expressing
ageism. I suppose both Alexander and Francis should be listened to, so I should
be listened to as well, IMO. I work for public-integrity as
private-liberty-with-civic-morality.
[27]
Perhaps some old people separate people.
[28]
Online at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson
1896
[29]
Robert Samuel Smith, A More Noble Cause,
2008.
[30]
Woodward, C. Vann, The Strange Career of
Jim Crowe, 1955.
[32]
Blacks under 100 Black Men may disagree.
[33]
Heather MacDonald, The War on Cops,
2016.
[37]
Online at concordmonitor.com/Civil-rights-marchers-U-S-still-needs-to-address-inequality-3635924
[38]
South Carolina Declaration of Secession, online at avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp
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