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The Journey of Abu Bakr

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In the Hall of Records

In the Hall of Records

Facebook Lawyers, YouTube Scholars, and the Price of Not Studying

“Well, I think that a lot of people were very badly treated,” Trump replied. “White people were very badly treated, where they did extremely well and they were not invited to go into a university or a college.” Donald J. Trump We’ve been so inundated by the current news cycle that I didn’t have the will, or the energy, to write my usual Friday rant.

TIMESGRAB // Patriotic Alternative Scotland hike to the top of Ben Nevis for Indigenous Peoples' Day 2021 // Banner: White Lives Matter // We watched as police murdered a person in the streets of Minneapolis.Clear video. Shot by the people. Police brutality in real time. Excessive force without ambiguity. We’ve grown accustomed to seeing death unfold on our screens.

se•di•tion — conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.

The things I couldn’t say on Facebook.

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but they are just wings of the same bird.

Or the Original Deep Fake (White Jesus) excerpted from Circumventing Your Religion to Find My God(s) Maybe it was that picture of The Last Supper I found in the basement — the one stored away around the same time my God stopped being my father’s God. The famous da Vinci version. You know it. White men in Italian robes sitting at a long table with silver plates and glass goblets that didn’t exist in first-century Jerusalem.

I’ve been thinking about this for a couple of weeks — and I’m trying hard not to be accused of calling for violence.

I remember the box — brown, long, and heavy — inside a brick of government cheese.

…you brought me in this world Happy Ancestral Birthday, Mom! As I celebrate your 95th year—only 68 on this side of the plane, way too short—it’s hard to say I miss you because, although you’re not here in the flesh, I probably talk to you more than ever. I hear your voice clearly when I sit still to listen. To remember.

The storm of this administration is getting stronger faster than anyone could have imagined. Well, I guess you ignored the forecast—Project 2025 wasn’t a whisper, it was a warning siren. They blew it in your face, and you ignored it. This is the worst disaster in history—a typhoon, wrapped in a tsunami, wrapped in a hurricane, birthing severe thunderstorms that spawn tornadoes, splitting the Continental Divide itself with earthquakes that register a 10.0 on the Richter scale.

I. The First Civil War: A Lesson in Division The first Civil War didn’t begin with a grand declaration or a congressional vote. It began with a shot. In 1861, there was only one United States Army. No North Army. No South Army. Just one body of soldiers who suddenly had to choose a side. For some, loyalty was to the Union.

Yesterday was homecoming and my 45th high school class reunion. The class of ’80, the first desegregated class to matriculate through the Evanston Public School District. When we began our educational journey as five- and six-year-olds, we couldn’t comprehend the significance of it. There was no ceremonial welcome, no assembly to tell us why it mattered, no acknowledgement that we were special.

In Tulsa, 1921, the cover story was “an uprising.” White mobs, backed by police, burned down Greenwood and dropped fire from the sky. The truth never had to be proven; the accusation was enough to authorize a massacre. In Philadelphia, 1985, the excuse was “public nuisance.” Police dropped a bomb on the MOVE house, killed 11 people—including five children—and burned out 61 Black families who had nothing to do with MOVE.

No paper trail.No midwife’s mark.No certificate to prove the day. Just Marlboro County fields,tobacco barns breathing their smoke,and the cry of the first of twelve —a Black child under Jim Crow skies. If he went to school, it was brief.The rows of cotton and tobacco called louder.He couldn’t read.But he could live.

From DEI to W.E.I.: Quantico Wasn’t a Briefing — It Was a Whiteness War Sermon Pete Hegseth just told the entire U.S. military that you’re fat, ugly, stupid, weak, and lazy — and that the rot starts at the top. He said no more “dudes in dresses,” but the only two dudes on that stage wearing makeup were him, with his face fully beat, and another man glowing orange like a custom blend from Maybelline or L’Oréal.

Remember Minority Report with Tom Cruise? The precogs could predict who was going to commit murder and the cops would swoop in before it happened. Crime nearly vanished because they followed the pattern. We don’t even need precogs. We already know the pattern. The majority of mass shooters in America look the same. White. Male. Angry. The suburbs. The dog in the yard.

Tonight, it’s going to be interesting to see what monologue Jimmy Kimmel comes out with. Will he be muted? Sanitized? Forced to issue a public apology to Charlie Kirk’s family for his “insensitivit…