English ex-slave trader, who was a part of the successful movement to abolish slave trade in the UK.
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Obama has made some good lemonade with the lemons he’s been handed.
That’s when he’ll be his best: no more need to balance out political capital and swallow his real thoughts.
I’m in the same boat - it was a beautiful, poignant speech.
But - and I’m sorry to nitpick - it’s President Obama, not Mr. Obama. It’s just polite to use the proper honorific.
The play Amazing Grace is in previews, it opens July 16 at the Nederlander Theater, traces the origins of the hymn from the slave trading sea farer who wrote it in the mid 18th century after he reforms and begins the fight in England to end slavery . For a lot of old line Protestant denominations this is a very…
Being President is kind of a shit job, if you actually care about doing it.
I think he’ll be more fun when he is an ex-Prez. Obama is only truly free in moments like this, when he gets to unleash his emotions and speak. The presidency shackles him. And there is NO chance he pulls a Bush II and hides away doing crappy paintings. He’s going to do something, and it will be a blast.
Your tweets today were great. A truly societal changing day, and not just for gay marriage. As awful as charleston was, it seems to be a galvanizing day for black folks and Obama as a true leader on that front.
I haven't been able to get off the internet today and this article joins the stack of beautiful things read, written, said and fucking SANG in the last 24 hours.
I’m a white atheist, but I was sobbing by the end of that, hoping against hope that Rev. Pinckney and his flock found their heavenly reward.
This is absolutely wrong. Black enfranchisement was at a peak in the latter half of the 19th century after the Civil War. In Texas, for example, there were more than 100,000 black voters in the 1890s. Then, in yet another of a long line of mistakes the North made, the army loosened its control of the erstwhile…
days like today will make me remember that, beside his title as president, Obama is, more importantly, our leader. I needed to hear his speech upon the SCOTUS decision. I needed that catharsis from Amazing Grace. He’s led us through so many events that if it weren’t for him being at the helm, i’m not sure how we’d…
It has to be hard for Obama. I don’t agree with everything he’s done as president but he constantly gets drilled by both sides, both for not representing the black community enough and for being “too racially devises”.
Now, I’m willing to accept the latter there as code for “I’m pretty racist” but still, it’s a real…
Learn your fucking history. Do you know what the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was and why it was necessary?
Poll taxes weren’t legally declared unconstitutional until 1966 though.
No. No it isn’t.
Yeah, but Communism isn’t an identifiable entity unto itself with defined governance and accountability. Nor is it, at least in my understanding, at all an advocate for killing people by the millions. You can’t hold it responsible any more than you can hold Democracy responsible for killing millions of people just…
A little backstory here:
Pinkwashing is where Queer-Friendliness is used to generate good PR and to essentially restrict what can be done/said. Sometimes it’s overt, like when Keystone XL supporters argued that Canadian oil is better because of Canada’s human rights legislation. Other times it’s more insidious. It often leads to Queer groups…