“By the American Civil War, nearly four million slaves in all toiled in the southern states, and about a million lived as servants in mansions and as field hands on large plantations with 50 slaves or more. They did almost all the grueling household and field labor that kept these places going, often sleeping and cooking in primitive cabins and working in unhealthy conditions under the threat of the whip.

In fact, the historic mansions hosting Christmas tourists never would have been built without the profits generated by slave labor. “

https://newsone.com/3896690/the-harsh-realities-of-slave-life-are-being-erased-in-christmas-tours-of-southern-plantations/

https://madamenoire.com/1094761/while-we-debated-chicken-sandwiches-and-football-the-largest-rainforest-in-the-world-burned/

“Today’s psychology tells us that faith can be very helpful in coping with major life setbacks, including divorce, serious illnesses, the death of a loved one, and even natural or human-caused disasters.…Other studies have shown that religious people are less prone to depression and anxiety, are less likely to abuse alcohol and drugs, and have above average immunity to physical diseases. As a result, psychologists are now developing faith-based approaches to treating chronic anger and resentment, the emotional scars of sexual abuse, and eating disorders.”

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/psychology-finally-finds-god/

Salute Kap!

https://newsone.com/3827712/colin-kaepernick-nfl-harvard/

Distrust Of Sacramento Police Grows After Cops Kill Another Black Man

https://blackamericaweb.com/2018/09/07/distrust-of-sacramento-police-grows-after-cops-kill-another-black-man/

“The white privilege kicks in even for a stone-cold murder; and now, for an accused one.”

https://newsone.com/3818610/nia-wilson-video-arrested-white-man/

“According to 2016 Federal Reserve data, median wealth for white families is $171,000. Black and Latino families, meanwhile, have far less wealth: Black families have a median wealth of $17,600, while Latino families have $20,700.

It would take decades to centuries for Black families to achieve the same amount of wealth that white families have. According to a 2016 report from the Institute for Policy Studies, it would take Black families 228 years to reach the same amount of wealth that white families have today.”

https://truthout.org/articles/black-americans-median-wealth-could-disappear-in-one-generation/

“As for those who simply do not have the necessary theological grounding or intellectual prowess to justly and thoroughly evaluate both sides of the highly complex polemics, with what right – and with what knowledge – do they feel they can be unyielding or dogmatic about such matters? For they have no real grasp of these issues. They are just followers of their scholars; many of them bigoted, blind followers at that.

So let repentance be made and schism-mongering be stayed; and perhaps the Generous Lord will look kindly upon us so that we may all be saved.”

https://thehumblei.com/2018/07/02/a-word-on-salafis-asharis-and-fossilised-theologies/