I mean the whole damn point of the Nativity story is that the supposed son of God (interpret Jesus how you fucking want, of course) was born to a couple of poor, exhausted peasants in the stable for the inn, and his first bed was a feeding trough for animals. That would nowadays be like a poor couple where the mother gives birth in a parking garage behind the motel because they couldn’t find a better place and nobody else would take them in. It’s a pretty gritty setting, and the idea is that God was reborn in some of the rock-bottom lowest circumstances. The only thing majestic was all the angels and shit, and of course motherly love
I get that a lot of the art portraying Madonna and Child as fabulously wealthy europeans in splendid robes and golden light was meant to glorify God + whichever nobility was sponsoring the artist, and while of course it’s genuinely beautiful art, it just always struck me as horribly missing the point, which is that the supposed son of God started in incredibly humble circumstances, among the kind of people that everyone else looks down on
‘Massacre des Innocents’ by Leon Cogniét, 1824. Although the Feast of the Holy Innocents is in a couple of days time, this painting is still really relevant in that it portrays Mary as how She really was: a scared refugee mum, so fearful that Her son was going to be one of the Innocents killed by King Herod.
The team consists of players who are 8 years old or younger, and ahead of their game Sunday, all 25 players kneeled during the national anthem.
These brave children were aware of the not-guilty verdict in the Jason Stockley case and decided to take a knee for justice. Colin Kaepernick has influenced so many of us and this is the result of him risking his career for justice. These kids understand the state of things in America and even at such a young age they’re already fighting for justice.
A new chatbot called Raheem.ai helps the public rate police interactions.
Founder Brandon D. Anderson created the company after his partner was killed by police in a traffic stop gone bad.
Raheem.ai is backed by an accelerator for nonprofits called FastForward.
Raheem.ai anonymizes all the data it collects so users can be as candid as they like without fear of retaliation. The start-up plans to publish quarterly reports showing where police are working well or failing communities across the U.S. It will also deliver custom reports to precincts, cities or campuses to help them pinpoint areas for improvement, Anderson said.
This moment when black people create things to help us survive the racial profiling and police brutality.
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