Read "The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap" by Mehrsa Baradaran so you can summarize its arguments for your Uncle Know-Nothing-Who-Is-Proud-He-Doesn't-Read who blames black people in #USA for their #poverty
https://bit.ly/3uTFq7K #history #capitalism #TARP

Read "Small Things Like These" by Claire Keegan. Then think about whether your morality is that of Ivan Ilych or Bill Furlong. https://bit.ly/3PTheOB #existentialism #religion #hypocrisy

Review: Redeployment by Phil Klay http://bit.ly/29qCrun #Iraq #War #USA #WarCrimes #Fiction #Literature #Veterans #Army #Occupation

Review: Book of the Superiority of Dogs Over Many of Those Who Wear Clothes #Dogs #Ethics #Fiction #Poetry #Arabic http://bit.ly/29J9Y4r

Bill Maher’s Use of Opinion Polls of Muslims is Ahistorical & May Justify Violations of Their Human Rights https://bit.ly/3OSn5nX #Islam

Congressman Jody Hice (GA-10) Accuses Federal Judges of Terrorism for Refusing to Endorse Religious Displays in Public Buildings https://bit.ly/3qzbHUQ

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was designed to prevent white supremacists from using poll taxes, literacy tests & violence to prevent non-whites from registering to vote. But there's a lot more to the story. #LetPeopleVote #APUSH #history https://bit.ly/2TV94JT

Aunt Lydia: I’m a great proponent of better. In the absence of best. Which is how we live now. This should be the motto of Centrist Democrats, since the only claim they ever make is that they are better than the grifters of the Republican Party. https://bit.ly/2LsMHGu https://bit.ly/2LsMHGu

"When Stars Are Scattered" by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed communicates some aspects of life as refugees. This is particularly important for people in the United States, where refugees are often portrayed as dangerous. https://bit.ly/3fAvf1F #Somalia #Kenya #RefugeesAreWelcomeHere

The people screaming about #CriticalRaceTheory #CRT, #SocialEmotionalLearning, #GenderIdeology etc at your Board of Education meetings are liars, even if they can pass polygraph tests. https://bit.ly/3mPhaB9 #AugustaGA #ColumbiaCounty #gapol

Before your child travels to another country to spend time with your relatives, share "While I Was Away" by Waka T Brown. It may help them understand the tremendous, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn & bond with family. https://bit.ly/3mQGsyZ #YA #immigration #USA #Japan

In the 20 years I've been reviewing Muslim children's literature, there's been significant improvement, as demonstrated by 8 new books from Ruqaya's Bookshelf. Nevertheless, we need to level up and demand more from Muslim children's literature. https://bit.ly/3tEzJyE

Review: The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age by Martha Nussbaum http://bit.ly/29quN2i #fascism

Review: The Future of Life by E.O. Wilson #Ecology #Environment #Science #biodiversity http://bit.ly/29JoOaZ

Updated: Nature reserves maintained with #humanrights abuses

The Content of Character: Ethical Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ by Shaikh Al-Amin Ali Mazrui https://bit.ly/3OY5gUp #Islam #Muslims

Ken Burns obfuscates why United States invaded & occupied Vietnam & unleashes hostility on peace activists #VietnamWarPBS https://bit.ly/3OBmRQY

Gandalf is an imperialist warmonger #IStandWithSauron #LOTR #Tolkien #TheHobbit #Eurocentrism #R2P #LiberalInterventionism https://bit.ly/2IT1iJX

The many paradoxes & contradictions of Christian nationalism make sense when they are taken out of the artificial "culture war" framing & placed within the history of the antidemocratic reaction in the United States--Katherine Stewart "Power Worshippers" https://bit.ly/2Y6XYDx

If the National Association of Child Pornographers issued a report detailing how a lack of victimized children was a bottleneck in the production of child pornography, would we be talking about a #labor shortage? https://bit.ly/2RYU2E6 #capital #marketfundamentalism #media

Author Josh Tickell claims that regenerative #agriculture captures carbon & methane and that it is absolutely necessary to prevent desertification and pollution and maintain the food production necessary to feed all of the humans on the planet. https://bit.ly/3SK1mRm #ecology