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What a depressing and accurate depiction of the past and how many roadways operate today! Let's be part of the change! 🏃♂️🚴 #completestreets #equity #safety #pedestriansafety #bicyclesafety

Sanchez, J. C. (2018). Trump, the KKK, and the Versatility of White Supremacy Rhetoric. Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric, 8. Abstract: This article theorizes the use of rhetorical versatility as a language tool for white supremacists in the age of Donald Trump, specifically referring to the ways Trump and the KKK speak to their various audiences through textual winks and polysemy. After demonstrating the recent rise of white supremacist groups in this country, rhetorical versatility is explored as a way for rhetors to camouflage and signal their ideological viewpoints, which ultimately leads to an analysis of key terms and ideas that both the KKK and Trump utilize in the public sphere: “patriotism,” “heritage,” and “security.” Diving into the specific uses of these terms, this article pinpoints the textual winks that have constructed a civic version of white supremacy over the last few years. Ultimately, this analysis not only builds a theory of rhetorical versatility but also argues that we need more scholarship on the tacit forms of white supremacy. Keywords: white supremacy, Donald Trump, KKK, rhetorical versatility, textual winks, rhetorical climates. #transitionaljustice #nationalapology #reparations

Confussion is what makes the oil companies profitable.

Let My People Go is a modern-day deliverance story rooted in biblical themes and archetypes, but instead of examining the bondage of the children of Israel by Pharoah, the film focuses on the bondage of the American people. "Pharoah" is replaced by a wholly infiltrated and weaponized U.S. government directly and indirectly influenced by CCP and Marxist forces. The film presents two overlapping narratives of America's enslavement. The first form of slavery is achieved using proprietary "black boxes" and software, where swamp candidates are selected rather than elected. Massive ballot harvesting operations provide the paper trail to cover up the greatest crime in our nation's history-the removal of Donald J. Trump. The second form of slavery focuses on the real-life consequences of the Americans who gathered and protested the theft of their votes on November 3rd-the January Sixers-that now languish in prison.  

Why the Black & Brown descriptors. #WhiteSupremacy Is the goal of #SystemicRacism These Mechanisms are Taught https://lnkd.in/eHCDRMc4

A powerful video depiction of a small history of where we've been and where we are. Maybe more accurately, WHO we are. https://lnkd.in/guz4yxFn

Just Ignore It! This video, created by a group of local students and Hull's Young Mayor, is based on their real-life experiences of racism and racial prejudice. This is such a powerful video. If you have 5 minutes, please give it a watch. https://lnkd.in/ekE8cQN2

https://lnkd.in/eZ4fMes3 Some are out there, lying and telling you that they know best. And they do not want to discuss, or argue their case. Instead they speak over, double talk, double think and enforce their decisions with force. When confronted, they use violence and they do not want to give anyone the right to Free Speech or Protest. Only protest that is non-disruptive, protest that is non-effective. Protest, has always had rational action, the Magna Carta recognized this as a standard. Read the document, if you can find it and not an interpretation, read the history of how the King was forced to act by protest. The fact is we are already on this path, and decisions are made before anyone has any ability to respond they are foregone conclusions that cannot be questioned. When they are, there is evasion and equivocation and dirty work.