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While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the terror those and similar acts impose on communities seems to have been forgotten post-Sept. 11, 2001.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Acts Also Been Birmingham Bombing Church Communities Forgotten Historic Impose Most Recognition Seems Series Similar Terror Those While 1990S

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The Charleston shooting is a result of an ingrained culture of racism and a history of terrorism in America. It should be covered as such.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: America Charleston Covered Culture History Ingrained Racism Result Shooting Should Terrorism

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In the racialized space of capitalist gentrification, police are not only arbiters of the peace, they are the muscle of retail racism: You can only be in this space if you transcend your blackness by showing us some green dollars. Even then, there is no guarantee that green will transcend your black skin.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Black Blackness Capitalist Dollars Even Green Guarantee Muscle No Guarantee Only Peace Police Racism Retail Showing Skin Some Space Then Transcend Us Will You Your

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Gentrification is stripping people not only of their homes but also of their dignity and their lives, and it is effectively whitening public spaces.

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Topics: Also Dignity Effectively Homes Lives Only People Public Spaces Stripping

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Spatial racism, the erasure of black faces in a predominantly white city, is in full effect in both Crown Heights and Center City Philadelphia. This racism demands that bodies that don't conform to a mandated 'white' status quo can be redlined out of a space.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Black Bodies Both Center City Conform Crown Demands Effect Faces Full Heights Out Philadelphia Quo Racism Space Spatial Status Status Quo White

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Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women as equal to men. He may have been the country's greatest evangelist, but he was also an apologist for the racist and sexist beliefs pervasive among white evangelical men in 20th-century America.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Accepted Also America Among Been Beliefs Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Country Equal Evangelical Evangelist Graham Greatest He May Men Movement Never Pervasive Promoted Put Really Rights Rights Movement Sexist Wanted White Women

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Graham may have wanted integration, but instead, he promoted gradualism and provided absolution for racists hiding behind a Christianity attuned not only to Jesus but also focused on regulating behavior and black bodies.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Absolution Also Behavior Behind Black Bodies Christianity Focused Graham He Hiding Instead Integration Jesus May Only Promoted Provided Racists Wanted

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Graham's legacy is not as a maverick or a trailblazer. It is the legacy of a man who used Jesus as a tool to placate the masses so that the status quo of conservative white America could remain firmly in place.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: America Conservative Could Firmly Graham Jesus Legacy Man Masses Maverick Place Quo Remain Status Status Quo Tool Used White Who

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God ain't good all of the time. In fact, sometimes, God is not for us.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Fact God Good In Fact Sometimes Time Us

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As a black woman in a nation that has taken too many pains to remind me that I am not a white man and am not capable of taking care of my reproductive rights or my voting rights, I know that this American god ain't my god.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Am American Black Capable Care God Know Man Many Me Nation Pains Remind Reproductive Rights Taken Taking Too Voting Voting Rights White Woman I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: August 6th, 1956

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