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+ christian fascism, christian nationalism, christianity, fascism, Gerald L K Smith, James Luther Adams, lillian e smith, religion, strange fruit

“Flashes of lightning to quicken our steps”: Lillian E. Smith and Christian Fascism

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I have been sitting on this essay for a couple of years. It is an essay that Emma Williams and I co-wrote in my Lillian E. Smith and Christian Nationalism course two years ago. During that class, we wrote “Christian Nationalism Hurts the Children It Clams to Protect” in Religion Dispatches, and this essay arose, partly, out of that article. Initially, we wanted to submit this essay … Read More “Flashes of lightning to quicken our steps”: Lillian E. Smith and Christian Fascism

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“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime”: Our Role in History

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I have no clue how I ended up in college. I just applied to a school and went 90 minutes down the road. While there, I found community and joined bands, hoping that one day I’d make it as a musician, touring the nation and the world and becoming famous. That’s, at least, what I thought. When I had those dreams, I didn’t think … Read More “Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime”: Our Role in History

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+ anna seghers, gert ledig, Japan, lillian e smith, nazi, the stalin front

“We’d find it hard to have enemies if we cared about what happened to them”: How the Construction of “Enemies” Harms Us All

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Fear arises not just through a lack of action but also through, as Lillian Smith puts it, “the singsong voices of politicians who preached their demonic suggestions to us as if elected by Satan to do so.” The creation of an enemy, of an other, outside of ourselves, someone we look down upon as “uncivilized,” “unintelligent,” “inferior,” or “”bestial,” serves as a weaponization of … Read More “We’d find it hard to have enemies if we cared about what happened to them”: How the Construction of “Enemies” Harms Us All

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+ ahmaud arbery, breonna taylor, ernest j gaines, george floyd, lillian e smith, politics, social justice

We Must Act to Ensure Our Freedom

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A few weeks ago, we had a protest in our small, rural town about the administration’s immigration policies. We gathered on the side of the road supporting our neighbors and participating in our right to freedom of speech. Before I went to the protest, I talked to a few people about going; however, they didn’t want to go because they were afraid of what … Read More We Must Act to Ensure Our Freedom

+ bloodline, ernest j gaines, history, james baldwin, lillian e smith, race, whiteness

“You, the white people, invented race”: Now Ask Yourself Why!

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When most people think about racism and oppression they think about the oppressed. They think about individuals who live under the heel of the oppressor. They think about the atrocities that the oppressor commits. They think about the acts of resistance against the oppressor. They do this and then they label it “the Negro problem” or “the Jewish question,” placing the onus of the … Read More “You, the white people, invented race”: Now Ask Yourself Why!

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