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October 8, 2017
#Helping
October 7, 2017
Yeah, but what about HER emails...
It was never about her emails.
"It was never about my emails."
October 7, 2017
Peeling the Whitewash From Our Myths: Susan K. Smith and Bill Moyers
Peeling the Whitewash From Our Myths: Susan K. Smith and Bill Moyers talk about the Bible, the Constitution and Race
All men are created equal does not mean what we think those words should mean.
BY BILL MOYERS | OCTOBER 5, 2017
Editors Note: Susan K. Smith almost didnt make it last summer to the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York that historic community of adult learning to where outstanding speakers have been holding forth since its founding in l874. Because of cancelled flights she spent a long and sleepless night in an airport, finally arriving at Chautauqua, an hour from Buffalo, just in time to grab some breakfast and less than an hours shuteye before addressing an audience of over 2,000 people on the subject, Grappling with the Myths of Democracy and Monotheism in a World Where Neither Exists. It was a handful of a topic and a warm day but the audience never strayed as Smith spoke of Americas current turmoil in the context of the documents that guided its founding, in particular the Constitution and the Bible. After she called out The Religion of Empire and The God of the State the questions came fast but not furious, and lively exchanges followed.
Smith has done a lifetime of homework in American history, culture and religion. She earned her B.A. in literature at Occidental College, her masters at Yale Divinity School (where she was the first woman president of the student body), and her doctorate at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. Shes been a minister of music and senior pastor, led outreach programs to the poor in Columbus, Ohio, and organized a multi-racial, multi-ethnic social justice organization that was recently instrumental in getting the Ohio legislature to enact a law which prevents pay lenders from charging clients exorbitant interest rates. Shes spoken on tensions between the secular and the sacred and their sometimes coupling at venues from Oxford University to ..well, Chautauqua, where we met. I had arranged this interview before the massacre in Las Vegas, a story still unfolding as we talked.
Bill Moyers
Moyers: Why do you think America nurtures such violence?
Smith: I think there is a tie, a connection between violence and the desire for power. Violence is seen as some type of a badge of strength. If you can be violent physically, or if you can be violent emotionally or if you can be violent spiritually, youre strong.
http://billmoyers.com/story/scraping-whitewash-from-myths-religion-and-politics/
All men are created equal does not mean what we think those words should mean.
BY BILL MOYERS | OCTOBER 5, 2017
Editors Note: Susan K. Smith almost didnt make it last summer to the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York that historic community of adult learning to where outstanding speakers have been holding forth since its founding in l874. Because of cancelled flights she spent a long and sleepless night in an airport, finally arriving at Chautauqua, an hour from Buffalo, just in time to grab some breakfast and less than an hours shuteye before addressing an audience of over 2,000 people on the subject, Grappling with the Myths of Democracy and Monotheism in a World Where Neither Exists. It was a handful of a topic and a warm day but the audience never strayed as Smith spoke of Americas current turmoil in the context of the documents that guided its founding, in particular the Constitution and the Bible. After she called out The Religion of Empire and The God of the State the questions came fast but not furious, and lively exchanges followed.
Smith has done a lifetime of homework in American history, culture and religion. She earned her B.A. in literature at Occidental College, her masters at Yale Divinity School (where she was the first woman president of the student body), and her doctorate at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. Shes been a minister of music and senior pastor, led outreach programs to the poor in Columbus, Ohio, and organized a multi-racial, multi-ethnic social justice organization that was recently instrumental in getting the Ohio legislature to enact a law which prevents pay lenders from charging clients exorbitant interest rates. Shes spoken on tensions between the secular and the sacred and their sometimes coupling at venues from Oxford University to ..well, Chautauqua, where we met. I had arranged this interview before the massacre in Las Vegas, a story still unfolding as we talked.
Bill Moyers
Moyers: Why do you think America nurtures such violence?
Smith: I think there is a tie, a connection between violence and the desire for power. Violence is seen as some type of a badge of strength. If you can be violent physically, or if you can be violent emotionally or if you can be violent spiritually, youre strong.
http://billmoyers.com/story/scraping-whitewash-from-myths-religion-and-politics/
October 7, 2017
The Unstoppable Rise Of Jesse Watters, Golden Boy Of Trumps Favorite Network
A year ago, the Bill OReilly protege released his breathtakingly racist Chinatown segment. Hes only gotten bigger since then.
By Maxwell Strachan
Qanta Shimizu just wanted to get inside Chase Bank to pull out the cash he needed to buy his fried chicken. But the white man in the gray suit wouldnt let him pass.
Standing on a corner in New York Citys Chinatown, the man told Shimizu he just had a few quick questions he wanted to ask. The idea made Shimizu nervous. He had only moved to the U.S. three years before, and his English was still rough.
But the man in the suit wouldnt take no for an answer. He asked Shimizu, who is Japanese, what Chinese people thought about Donald Trump, then the Republican nominee for president. He asked if Japanese people looked down on the Chinese.
Finally, he asked if Shimizu knew karate. Shimizu explained he had recently started taking karate classes in Columbus Circle. The man in the suit asked him to demonstrate a punch. Just wanting to escape, an uncomfortable Shimizu did as he was asked.
Shimizu tried to put the strange incident behind him. He got his fried chicken and went home to his wife and kids. A few days later, in early October 2016, one of his friends sent him a video called Watters World: Chinatown Edition.
When Shimizu pressed play, he watched as the man in the suit mocked elderly people who spoke little to no English. He watched as the man got a foot massage from an Asian woman and as he questioned two other women before the segment cut to a movie clip of two giggling Asian schoolgirls. And he watched as the man ridiculed him, too, asking him to hit his hand. Thats nothing, the man told Shimizu, before the video cut away again ― this time, to a scene from a slapstick martial arts movie.
For nearly four minutes, the video depicted people in Chinatown as a collection of non-English-speaking, nunchaku-wielding, politically ignorant foreigners.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jesse-watters-fox-news_us_59c6dd63e4b06ddf45f84ef1
By Maxwell Strachan
Qanta Shimizu just wanted to get inside Chase Bank to pull out the cash he needed to buy his fried chicken. But the white man in the gray suit wouldnt let him pass.
Standing on a corner in New York Citys Chinatown, the man told Shimizu he just had a few quick questions he wanted to ask. The idea made Shimizu nervous. He had only moved to the U.S. three years before, and his English was still rough.
But the man in the suit wouldnt take no for an answer. He asked Shimizu, who is Japanese, what Chinese people thought about Donald Trump, then the Republican nominee for president. He asked if Japanese people looked down on the Chinese.
Finally, he asked if Shimizu knew karate. Shimizu explained he had recently started taking karate classes in Columbus Circle. The man in the suit asked him to demonstrate a punch. Just wanting to escape, an uncomfortable Shimizu did as he was asked.
Shimizu tried to put the strange incident behind him. He got his fried chicken and went home to his wife and kids. A few days later, in early October 2016, one of his friends sent him a video called Watters World: Chinatown Edition.
When Shimizu pressed play, he watched as the man in the suit mocked elderly people who spoke little to no English. He watched as the man got a foot massage from an Asian woman and as he questioned two other women before the segment cut to a movie clip of two giggling Asian schoolgirls. And he watched as the man ridiculed him, too, asking him to hit his hand. Thats nothing, the man told Shimizu, before the video cut away again ― this time, to a scene from a slapstick martial arts movie.
For nearly four minutes, the video depicted people in Chinatown as a collection of non-English-speaking, nunchaku-wielding, politically ignorant foreigners.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jesse-watters-fox-news_us_59c6dd63e4b06ddf45f84ef1
October 7, 2017
Columbus was the first lie... They're still lying to this very day about what came afterwards
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