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Damn You Auto-Correct: Creationist Edition

By Lauri Lebo

…upreme Court ruled that creation science was a religious notion and had no business in public school science class. So, realizing that Pandas’ marketability had just taken a nose dive right into the toilet, FTE editors quickly went through the manuscript with a search-and-replace word processor option, taking out “creation science” and replacing it with “intelligent design”. Really. That’s all they did. But when the Kitzmiller legal team went thro…

Will House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

By Peter Laarman

…te media chatter on about the consequences of a national default on middle-class people’s pensions. They chatter on about “will he or won’t he” Paul Ryan. Almost nobody with a soapbox, and (sadly) none of our religious leaders, talks about broader GOP campaign to strangle what remains of the welfare state. The corporate media let well-fed white guys like Freedom Caucus leader Jim Jordan talk about the need not to saddle his children and grandchild…

Don McLeroy’s Texas Textbooks Would Replace Historical Characters With Fictional Ones

By Lauri Lebo

…onal work of Thomas Kinkade (Painter of Light ™) should be used in history class to balance teaching students about “the immigrant experience presented by muckrakers and reform leaders such as Upton Sinclair, Susan B. Anthony, Ida B. Wells, and W. E. B. DuBois on American society.” In the proposed amendment, which he distributed to fellow board members, he suggested that students should also learn about the “optimism of immigrants including Jean P…

Wearing White is Not Enough: A Conversation with Cherisse Scott of SisterReach

By Anita Little

…r women’s lives and the lived experiences that we have—regardless of race, class, or gender, social economic status, or even sexual orientation. None of those things seem to matter to this administration. The only thing that seems to matter to them is undoing some of the very important work that was done during the Obama administration to ensure that women and girls have access to the health services that we need. Our autonomy is an afterthought….

The People’s Temple, the Black Church, and the Tragic Legacy of Jonestown

By Anita Little

…ally what anchored the movement. It was the investment of everyday working-class and middle-class African-Americans but also the investment of black politicians, of black power brokers, of black activists. You have said that Jim Jones fashioned himself as the “ultimate white savior.” Why do you think he felt this draw to proselytizing African-Americans, black women especially? Part of his personal lore was that his father was a klansman, and he wo…

Marriage Equality: Race, Family Values, and the 99%

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…lso benefit from segregated neighborhoods, schools, tax credits for middle class homeowners, and higher-paying jobs. Complex families of color that are either headed by single gay or straight parents are marginalized as inherently dysfunctional, welfare-dependent, and socially borderline. Loving gay partners of color with children are nonexistent. This media white-out has insidious implications for both straight and gay children of color. If gay c…

‘God Made Them Male and Female…and Eunuch’: Why the Biblical Case For Binary Gender Isn’t So… Biblical

By Tony Keddie

…aven. Eunuchs, in Pliny the Elder’s censorious words, belonged to a “third class of half-males.” The satirist Lucian from Syria concurred, classifying eunuchs as “something composite, hybrid and monstrous, outside of human nature.” Some Jewish authors like Philo and Josephus were also quick to degrade eunuchs as a detested class of gender-ambiguous people who were able neither “to disseminate seed nor to receive it.” Since eunuchs were unable to p…

Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise

By Thomas Lecaque

…obalists, we will cast out the communists. We will throw off the political class that hates our country. They actually hate our country. No walls, no borders, bad elections, no voter ID. We will beat the Democrats. We will route the fake news media. We will expose and appropriately deal with the RINOs. We will evict Joe Biden from the White House. And we will liberate America from these villains and scoundrels once and for all.” QAnon’s argument i…

Note to the Tax-Slashers:
We Are Already Serfs

By Peter Laarman

…ney—who were, so to speak, placed into debt peonage by the elite political class. As our country’s own debt doomsday nears, it might be good to peel back the simplistic corporate media narrative to see the big picture. We are broke and we’re paying more and more to service our national debt for one primary reason: for decades, but especially during the George W. Bush years, our political leaders have systematically exempted the rich and powerful f…

Mitt Romney’s Prosperity Gospel

By Peter Laarman

…possible remedy. But this doesn’t mean that many middle-class and working-class Americans, including many who consider themselves free of any residual Puritanism, don’t buy into the new austerity. Obama’s response so far to Romney’s Austerity/Prosperity Gospel: “Do the math.” The professor’s answer to the preacher. But Mr. President, with respect: Your own Education Department will affirm my suggestion that we are no longer the world’s most math…