Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races here in this ancient Holy Land, the House of Abraham, Muhammad, and all the other Prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colors...
You may be shocked by these words coming from me. But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to rearrange much of my thought-patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. This was not too difficult for me. Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.
During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed (or on the same rug) -- while praying to the same God -- with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the actions and in the deeds of the "white" Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan, and Ghana. We were truly all the same (brothers) -- because their belief in one God had removed the "white" from their minds, the 'white' from their behavior, and the 'white' from their attitude. I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man -- and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color.
With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called "Christian" white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster -- the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves.
They asked me what about the Hajj had impressed me the most. . . . I said, "The brotherhood! The people of all races, color, from all over the world coming together as one! It has proved to me the power of the One God. . . . All ate as one, and slept as one. Everything about the pilgrimage atmosphere accented the Oneness of Man under One God.
~Malcolm X, Letter following the Hajj.
I saw this yesterday.
Some idiot drew Jesus, sitting next to Trump, courtroom illustration style.
Seems kind of pointless, I mean, why bother?? These fucking people don't give a damn about the actual Jesus...but Trump sure as hell is their White Jesus.
And not that Trump has bothered to actually preach much of anything, but by his own actions, his is a "Gospel" of Hate and Racism, Self and Selfishness, that offers anybody who believes in it nothing much more than the chance to be their worst possible selves, and to possibly have their boot on somebody's throat before they themselves die a horrible death. There's nothing better, nothing Higher...not to mention nothing After.
Seriously, I've never heard anybody...except for MAGA Christians who make plain they don't believe in anything but the MAGA part...claim that one goes to Heaven if one dies believing in all this shit.
And more to the point, they can't wait to reject Latino migrants who, if treated decently and given a chance to make something of themselves and eventually, citizenship, might vote overwhelmingly for whichever Party they think supports Christianity, with just a little persuasion.
But that's the kicker, isn't it??
Persuasion is the very thing "Conservatives" think
most beneath them.
And seriously, explain to me like I'm five just what kind of "Culture" or what "God" or what kind of "Values" all these White "Conservatives" the fuck even have, anyway, that I'd recognize as any such thing. 'Cause whatever those things are, they sure don't want to share with the rest of the class. Go ahead, I'll wait, and while you're at it you can tell me just why in the fuck this hateful bullshit shouldn't be replaced with something different??
Of course now that the Republican motherfuckers shit-canned Kevin McCarthy yesterday, they apparently can't wait to have a go at fighting
each other, too.
So with all that in mind, I'm rather skeptical when these assholes go around telling anybody, much less whole countries, that they should "Submit to Christ."
Bitch, if you aren't trying to live a Christ-like life according to the Lord's Word (and see, they wrote this stuff down, so we can verify what all it says and the text is very easily accessible) why the fuck should anybody listen to you, for any reason??
This is America, you don't have and never will have the Power to compel other people to live like good little "Christian" bitches and obey you while you just do whatever you damn well please. Not over the whole country, anyway. We're not Russians who just shrug at being ruled by an incestuous royal family or a succession of totalitarian dictators.
More to the point, America is already becoming less religious, not more so...and what there is left, appears to be so overrun with corruption and sexual abuse that I don't see this trend slowing down.
What you'd generate in whatever you got, if anything, is a lot of backstabbing fakes and frauds who'd very likely make more enemies than they could handle, and then sell those enemies the weapons and ammunition used to
shoot down whatever regime you managed to create. Doesn't matter to
them, they figure
they'll be living it up in a Dacha in Sochi or a gilded palace in Dubai when it all comes crashing down
here and whoever's left gets put up against a wall and shot.
Of course, considering how beholden to the Russians you fuckers would end up being, that total also excludes anybody being forced to sleep next to the toilet and getting sodomized in a Russian labor camp of Strict Regime where I imagine a lot of these shitheads would get dumped for displeasing Russian "Advisors" or daring to think they run things themselves.
Again, Republicans, Tankies and anybody else who needs to hear this...if you let the Russians decide that Ukrainians don't have a right to exist...what's to keep anybody from deciding that you don't, either??
These fucking people seem to think some kind of relative status will protect them, it doesn't register that it can be taken away just as easily as it's granted. This is why people like me believe in human rights, and don't much care for the idea of Privilege.
Like...if y'all so afraid of being "Replaced" wouldn't it just be easier to believe in a framework of human society that makes that both impossible to execute and unethical to even try?? You know, the framework of human society we already have, which we decided on because we were tired of having a major war every generation or so.
Do you WANT to go around being afraid all the time??
Why is this conspiracy theory idea that somebody something something Gazpacho wants to "replace" White people with somebody else BAD, but Russians wanting to eradicate Ukrainians (and presumably, others) and replace those people with themselves is GOOD???
Again, the Russians themselves have specifically said this is what they want to do.
And both Republicans and goddamn Tankies have come right out and said they're just fine with that, and that it's somehow "Fascism" to resist Russian Fascism.
So what the hell do you idiots think you'll have to stand on if somebody actually did decide you shouldn't exist??
I get it, I'm old-fashioned.
But wouldn't it just be easier to believe in freedom and human rights??
Wouldn't it be easier to just stop hating America and realize that we're all we've got, and all we have is what we want to be??
Or are you fuckers still stuck on going with literally anything other than all of us being created equal??
So what then happens when somebody else, with a different culture but (maybe) the same color skin decides you're not??
Republicans, you've already set the precedent that leaves you with nothing to stand on.
Either you believe in freedom or you don't.
The White Jesus is a lie, you're not special. Get the fuck over it.
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The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it's a simple answer after all. You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits — not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty. ~Ronald Reagan
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"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride."
~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press
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