My wife went to her church, The Luke, last night for their monthly meeting of their “Be The Bridge Project” initiative. It’s a monthly ongoing dialogue between a predominantly black church, The Luke, and the predominantly white church, Kingwood Christian Church. I am proud of the two pastors, Pastor Timothy Sloan, and Pastor Chad Mattingly. Professor Dr. John J. Theis, a well-known community organizer and head of the Lone Star College Center for Civic Engagement, is the facilitator of this program among the many types of engagement activities he organizes.
The churches formed an alliance to sustain substantive and intentional discussions on racial issues and unity. These great community leaders understand Dr. Martin Luther King’s statement about the most segregated hour in America.
A solution to Republican Right Wing hate
An attendee from Kingwood Christian Church gave my wife a flier and asked her to give it to me. She said she was very concerned about these types of fliers. I included the entire flier at the end of this post.
Have you ever wondered why so many predominantly white people vote for a man as un-intellectual, morally defective, selfish, and narcissistic as Donald Trump and many of his cohorts? Our plutocracy, our oligarchy, and many of our wealthy understand that they can only continue their legalized thievery if they create maximum polarization. They turn misunderstanding and ignorance into existential differences that shut down the critical thinking of many. And if you are not thinking critically and acquiesce to the false messages they put out, then you will fail to see the culprits actually causing us harm.
The flier below is a very expensive flier to create and mass mail. As a progressive political activist, I know we cannot match the money that the wealthy plutocrats and oligarchs have. But we have a bigger weapon, community engagement, personal attributes, and more if we choose to innoculate ourselves from the hate they sell and just show others we care. If we stop just preaching to the choir and wondering why the others just won’t change.
Flier: Beautiful antiseptic promotion of hate by Republican Right Wing
