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Dispatch from Charlottesville: “It Was a War Zone. It Felt Like There Were a Million Nazis.”

…Blackmon were outside Emancipation Park offering prayerful presence and witness when neo-Nazis, fascists, and unhooded Ku Klux Klan members descended on the intersection, unleashing violence that caused the security detail protecting Blackmon and Henderson-Espinoza to literally yank Rev. Blackmon off-camera during a live interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid. (Video from that segment can be found below.) Just a few hours later and only blocks from where…

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Missing the Anger for the Shoes

…is issue of discipline is why the shoe is so symbolically important. Now, one could be more generous in the visual reading of this incident. The Iraqi journalist may have been re-enacting the “flying pie” that greets so many non-Muslim celebrities. In Arabic, orthographically, “pie” and “shoe” are written similarly to one another: a’-pie and ash-shu. He may actually have been trying to have some fun at the President’s expense. Of course, the final…

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Top Five (Less Sensational, But More Dangerous) Things to Remember About Pat Robertson (1930-2023)

…e to advocate similar scenarios of armed struggle or to use similar hate speech? What if they controlled television networks and were leading presidential candidates? Would federal prosecutors and mainstream news networks tolerate the same behavior? Is it not remarkable that we take such things for granted from Robertson? As a wise media critic once said, “it’s a joke, but it’s not that funny.”…

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