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This is a post I made in June and never finished
Lately I’ve been noticing a small but growing number of people calling themselves “godslaves”. These individuals are generally of a mystic bent, Norse or Hellenic, and have a strong devotion to a particular deity, to the point where they see themselves as being “owned” by [...]

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I’m almost done reading Doug McAdam’s Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency. The book is a very in depth analysis of the development of the Civil Rights/Black Freedom Movement. It seems to me that in the public schools, we often get a rather surface explanation of this movement- the “Disney version” [...]

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The Sword That Heals

Ch. 2 Why We Can’t Wait, Martin Luther King, Jr.
In this chapter, MLK lays out his argument for the use of nonviolent resistance, the sword that heals.  
 “Acceptance of nonviolent direct action was a proof a certain sophistication on the part of the Negro masses; for it showed that they dared to break with the [...]

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