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Why We’re Not Prepared to Prosecute White Nationalist Violence

By Sara Kamali

…e Patrick Crusius’ horrific act of terrorism targeting Latinos in El Paso, Texas five months later as well as Cruisus’ manifesto. So that these imbalances can be rectified, White nationalist organizations specifically should be recognized as FTOs thereby allowing for the possibility of material support of terrorism charges under 18 U.S. Code § 2339B. Or, more justly, the concept of FTOs (and SDGTs) is dismantled especially in light of the recent e…

Why Science and Social Distancing Can’t Replace Healing Supplements and Prayer

By Alan Levinovitz

…ers for their immune-boosting formulation, up four times from February. In Texas, a kombucha shop is selling out of elderberry concentrate and elderberry gummies. Across the United States, panicked consumers have cleaned out major retailers, who also report shortages of other “immune-boosting supplements,” among them Vitamin C, zinc, and Vitamin D. It makes sense to see these purchases as irrational and possibly dangerous: a waste of money when mo…

Satan May Provide a Comforting Story in Times of Crisis, But it Comes With a Price

By Reyhan Durmaz

…worshipping together,” Kelly Burton, pastor at Lone Star Baptist Church in Texas, announced on Facebook, while refusing to practice social distancing for Palm Sunday. This is, of course, nothing novel. Fear and uncertainty make a great concoction to bring the Devil back to life. Anywhere, anytime. Human history is a continuum of moments when the Devil takes the stage, and our moment is no exception. Since the drastic escalation of Covid-19 cases w…

Megachurch Pastor: We’re “American Al Qaeda” for Opposing Homosexuality

By Tom Bartlett

…ly they’re often on the same well-thumbed page. I wrote about Chandler for Texas Monthly, explaining how the quick-witted, 30-something Dallas megachurch pastor had become a star in that movement, and how he had coped, publicly and courageously, with a cancer diagnosis. What I didn’t mention was our discussion about gay rights. On the day I visited his church, he preached on the pitfalls of pornography and the dangers of illicit desire, but there…

What is Juneteenth to America? It Has to Be More Than ‘Black 4th of July’ if It’s to Be Truly Meaningful

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…was the date that the last remaining enslaved Africans held in Galveston, Texas were emancipated. In response to the news of their freedom they held a celebration that’s come to us today as ‘Emancipation Day’ or Juneteenth. Yet in response to the protest around the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and many more African Americans it seems that this week’s Juneteenth celebration may provide an opportunity to add a national observation to the…

Before We Scold DeSean Jackson and Others For Anti-Semitism We Need To Talk About ‘Chosenness’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…s the “children of Israel” or, as in W.E.B. Du Bois’ poem “Jesus Christ in Texas,” against Black people as allegorical Christ figure. Simply put, African Americans have constantly interpreted Black suffering as a type of Black chosenness. This chosenness is a type of redemptive suffering or theodicy that explains how an omnipotent and omnibenevolent deity could allow the continued suffering of Black people. It’s reasoned that this suffering is for…

Trump’s Nominee to Fill RBG’s Seat Is Unfit. By Definition.

By Andrew L. Seidel

…be filled until we have a new president.” His ilk agreed. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) appears on Trump’s Supreme Court shortlist and sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 2016 he said, “It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.” As chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee Republican Lindsey Graham can decide on his own if…

Even if Biden Wins Will We Reckon With ‘Virtuous Republic Syndrome,’ the Persistent Belief that America is a Blessed Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…about forever, of a very large share of the Black people living here, now numbering 42 million. As Malcolm X pointed out decades ago, it’s impossible to regard the United States as a nation of laws when those laws are very often suspended in the case of Black people. Malcolm believed, correctly, that a nation choosing to be only conditionally lawful cannot really be regarded as lawful at all—and should certainly stop its boasting about equal just…

Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking

By Peter Laarman

…converted it into sugar and molasses died of horrific abuse in staggering numbers. These islands were perpetually hungry for more flesh. New arrivals, coming from North America in chains, were always welcome, and the grandee planters paid handsomely. But routinely selling captured natives to the islands was just the beginning for the North American settlers. The long-lived Roger Williams was barely in his grave before his Rhode Island colony was…

As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues

By Chrissy Stroop

…d Christian nationalist mob—stoked by radical evangelical politicians like Texas’s junior Senator Ted Cruz, and by President Donald Trump himself—storming Capitol Hill to stop the Senate from moving forward with its process of formally certifying the Electoral College vote, a process already being obstructed by Cruz and some other Republican lawmakers. And, given that these pro-Trump terrorists carried not only American, Confederate, and Trump fla…