Nine Hometown Realities more important to me than trying to ban the Confederate flag

For me, I’d rather focus on realities over symbols. And all the items here are real right where I live; not stuff I see only on TV, a tablet screen, or a license plate. (Oh wait – I do see the flag on license plates. Whatever.)
. . . The reality that at least 40,000 mostly black voters were successfully deterred from voting in the 2014 NC election by racist vote suppression tactics — and that 40,000 was the margin that sent another New Confederate to the U. S. Senate. (And in this case, I actually did get arrested two summers ago, protesting NC’s vote suppression campaign, which is expanding.)

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After Charleston: Ban the Confederate Flag?? Let’s Do Something REAL.

And let me repeat his main point: the U.S. Civil War had two phases; only the first one ended in 1865, and southern white supremacists won the second phase.

They didn’t form a separate country; but they established a widespread common culture of segregation, maintained by both law and terrorism; and they recreated many slavery cognates.

Let’s call this the New-Confederacy. Not for nothing was the movie that became their epic called “The Birth of a Nation.”

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New-Confederate rule was somewhat disrupted in the 1960s; there have been some important changes since then. But the New-Confederate forces have come roaring back in the past decade, to regional dominance and national impact, on numerous fronts.

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Quakers Acting Badly: Bans, Brawls & Bungled Burials

Quakers Acting Badly: Bans, Brawls & Bungled BurialsIs the Truth of Friends Stranger (& Uglier) Than Fiction?     Some who read the last post here, about a potential “housecleaning” visit to a local Friends meeting by a Yearly Meeting-appointed doctrinal “Auditing Committee,” might have found it far-fetched.    And indeed it was fiction, though based on … Continue reading Quakers Acting Badly: Bans, Brawls & Bungled Burials →

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Carolina Quaker Witch Hunt: Here Comes The “Auditing Committee”

“All meetings will be ministered [by the “Auditing Committee”]to in order to obtain change so that they might comply with the will of NCYM as to theological, financial and membership issues. There will be ongoing dialogue between the meeting and the Auditing Committee during this process. If any meeting which is out of compliance wishes to commit to change and come back into compliance, they will be asked to sign a statement of such by the pastor, clerk and all members of Ministry and Counsel and be on probation for one year with consequences. “

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