Mayor McCheese @admin@mastodon-us.net

I get the feeling the original idea they wanted was "black people benefited from slavery because they became Christian." -- but, this was probably too obviously a violation of separation and racist.

Black people didn't just passively learn Christianity, btw. We re-invented it into a theology of liberation that drove the Civl Rights movement. So much synthesis and invention occurred *despite* slavery not because of it.

So much of what those people knew has been lost forever, but not all of it.

I assume you get why it's not a nice thing to say that "slavery helped black people in some ways" but I think some people miss why this particular idea is *exceptionally* racist.

One of the main arguments to justify slavery was that it "civilized" black people by making us Christian & teaching us obedience to our "betters." Black people were "lucky" or "better off" as slaves.

It assumes that when people were enslaved they had no skills, nothing to offer, that they were basically animals.

Clergy were shouting things at passing cars like, “The end is near. Turn yourselves around.”

Then one said to the others, “Shouldn’t we just tell them the bridge is out ahead?”

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A female black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) on swamp milkweed. #butterfly #butterflies #Lepidoptera #nativeplants #Illinois #nature #macro #photography #wildlifephotography #photographylovers

Black people have been trying to tell the world about Giuliani (and to a lesser extent Trump) for more than 30 years.

I'm happy Giuliani may face consequences for telling bald face, dangerous lies about Ruby Freeman & Shaye Moss, two perfectly ordinary, black ladies who wanted to help their community by being poll workers. They aren't just innocent, they are the kind of people any community is blessed to have.

And Giuliani knew this. Those accusations were pure malice and evil.

I miss written tutorials. I hate how every tutorial is a YouTube now. I don’t want to watch 15 minutes and forget to pay attention for the second that has the detail that I am missing or it just doesn’t show. Even short tutorials are 3 minutes when it could have been a ten second read. I want to skim a page and go directly to the point. Has writing really become that hard to do?

I will be away/unresponsive here for some time due to a family emergency.

Hug your loved ones, folks.

Which of these states of matter do you
prefer?

#EvanPoll #poll

#StarTrek

He’s a 10 but it’s on the ph scale

I love otters because they prove that you can be adorable even if you’re small, hairy and damp.

how do starships pass emissions tests