The Southern Poverty Law Center has released their 2020 report on 838 hate groups in the United States: https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/yih_2020-21_final.pdf “Does hate have a home in your community? Check out the SPLC’s Year in Hate report to learn about hate groups operating in your area — and what you can do to stop them.” In Arizona, … Read more
Much has been written in previous articles about the depths the Republican Party has sunk to in embracing the stench of bigotry, xenophobia, anti-immigrant, Anti Semitism, and White Nationalism-Nativism. The Reactionary players in this tragedy have included figures such as Kelli Ward, Andy Biggs, and Paul Gosar in Arizona. People of dubious characters like Iowa … Read more
Last fall I missed a talk by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s outreach director Lecia Brooks in Sahuarita. But recently at a Theology Uncorked meeting on migrants at the border, I found a SPLC brochure on Active Hate Groups in the U.S. Here’s the link, stating that there were 1020 such groups in the U.S. … Read more
This is what happens to the country when there is a President who was endorsed by the KKK. The country gets: A President who says there was fault on both sides and good people on both sides when White Supremacists stage a racist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. A President who will pardon anti-government militia members … Read more
Carolyn’s note: Feb. 2019 – there are no words (just two flyers) for why these types of talks are necessary in the United States of America.