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COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
What’s ironic is that a show that is so heavy-handed with its messaging about staying woke and ending discrimination against minorities could also be so bigoted.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
I wasn’t surprised to read that members got the idea from D. W. Griffith’s 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation. Fire has been an elemental influence on people since the dawn of human civilization.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Psychology’s “soul” was a casualty in the war between the spiritually alive and the spiritually dead.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
You walk into the bathroom and a large, black graffitied swastika greets you. It’s big, it’s ugly and it exudes an almost living presence, defying you to respond in some way. You’re 11 years old, you have fifteen minutes to get back to class, you’re in a new school, you just started making friends, and you don’t want to rock the boat.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
I, for one, don’t believe it. Don’t get me wrong. I believe the statistics, the surveys and the opinions. I believe the anger and the hostility. What I don’t believe is that this is who we really are.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
The late astronomer and teacher, Carl Sagan, requested that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, in its journey through the cosmos, pause at the edge of our solar system and take a photo of the Earth as seen from that perspective before traveling on. The scientists at NASA granted his request and, on February 14, 1990, the resulting image, transmitted from 4 billion miles away, shows our planet as it is in the universe: a pale blue dot, barely the size of the period at the end of this sentence.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Most people are decent: They are constructive, creative, welcoming and social…
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
My Facebook brothers and sisters have become tribes, or more precisely, granfalloons. A granfalloon, as defined by the coiner of the term, Kurt Vonnegut, in his 1963 novel, Cat’s Cradle, is “a proud and meaningless association of human beings.”
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Help End Religious Intolerance Wherever You Are Some of the moms I know are total superheroes, and I recently felt compelled to write about them.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
It is undeniably true that there are terrorists in the world and they are well named: they try to bring about terror, chaos, and fear. They are a tiny minority of the overall population.
