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Tag Archives: hate
Club Q
(edited to reflect new information; 11/21/22) Once again, my people have been attacked. Several members of the queer community were shot and killed at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado late Saturday night. On Sunday’s Transgender Day of Remembrance, news … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Jack Gaither, Christians, closet, Club Q, Colorado, Colorado Springs, common sense gun laws, Constitution, Dignity, equality, fear, gay, Harvey Milk, hate, hatred, leaders, LGBT, Matthew Shepard, out, politicians, Pulse Nightclub, queer, rights, safe spaces, transgender, United States, violence
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New Year’s Prayer
It seemed like virtually everyone in America was eagerly anticipating bringing in the New Year last night. The bulk of the year was taken up with the worst plague in modern history, More than 1.8 million people died worldwide from … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, 2021, America, Black lives matter, Breonna Taylor, commitment, conspiracy theorists, cops, coronavirus, culture, Donald Trump, economic disparity, economy, election fraud, equity, faith, fascism, George Floyd, government, greed, hate, heroes, Homeless, hope, hungry, inauguration, Jacob Blake, loved ones, narcissist, nature, New Year, normal, plague, poor, power, pray, Presidency, protests, quaarantine, racism, understanding, unemployed, vaccine, wish, world citizens
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Racist
“There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.” –Franklin D. … Continue reading
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Tagged African-Americans, Ammericans, battles, Charlottesville, citizens, civil war, color, Confederacy, Donald Trump, ego, equality, Franklin D. Roosevelt, hate, Heisman Trophy, immigrants, Instagram, Kyler Murray, leader, Mandy Manning, Mexicans, Muslims, National Football League, National Teacher of the Year, Nick Bosa, non-white citizens, oval office, President, racism, rapists, Robert. E. Lee, Rodney Robinson, slaveholder, South, systemic racism, transgender, treason, tweets, Twitter, union, United States of America, violence, Virginia, war, West Point, White House, white nationalists, white privilege, white supremacists
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Yes, This Is Who We Are
Aside from the ubiquitous thoughts and prayers, the refusal to consider any kind of gun control at all because it’s always too soon to talk about it, and the flags once again lowered to half-staff, there is another thing … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, American, anti-Semite, assassinations, Aurora, bombs, bridge, Christians, cisgender, Columbine, common ground, common sense gun laws, compassion, conscience, covert wars, death, disease, doctors, earth, empathy, enslaved, first responders, flags, forgiveness, Fort Hood, gays, genocide, gun control, half-staff, hate, history, Holocaust, Hondurans, immigrants, imprisonment, indigenous peoples, Ireland, Jews, Las Vegas, life savers, love, mass shooting, melting pot, men, Mexico, ministers, moral compass, murders, Muslims, nation, Native people, nurses, Oak Creek, pacifists, peacemakers, people of color, poor, potato famine, priests, privilege, promised land, Pulse Orlando, rabbis, random killings, republic, right-wing fanatic, Sandy Hook, shame, society, souls, starvation, Stoneman Douglas, straights, synagogue, The Tree of Life, thoughts and prayers, trans, Virginia Tech, volunteers, war, white people, white supremacist, women, worshippers
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Will they know
When they dig up these bones what will they find on the skeleton of my life? Will they be able to read the hieroglyphics on my skull and the petroglyphs of my soul etched in the decaying calcium before them? … Continue reading
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Tagged all, anger, bodies, bones, corpse, curiosity, dust, earth, empathy, enrgy, frailty, hate, hieroglyphics, home, human beings, immortality, life, love, man, mortality, passion, petroglyphs, skeleton, soul, strength, writing
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On the Pulse Nightclub Massacre
Within a couple minutes of waking up on Sunday morning several posts on Facebook had alerted me to yet another mass shooting in the United States. A moment later I saw that it had taken place at a gay nightclub … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Schindler, Atlanta, bigotry, Billy Jack Gaither, bisexual, Brandon Teena, Capitol Square, Christian, closet, Earl Greeley, fear, gay, gay club, gender, Harvey Milk, hate, homophobic, Islamist extremist, justice, Latino night, lesbian, LGBT, life partner, love, Madison, mass shooting, Matthew Shepard, Muslim, Native American, New Orleans, Orlando, other, Otherside Lounge, place of origin, pulse, Pulse Nightclub, queer, race, religion, right-wing, sexuality, status, Superior, transgender, University of Wisconsin, Upstairs Loung, Wisconsin
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Blake, Ash, and Skylar
Note: Someone reposted an article from a year ago and I didn’t notice that it said 2015 instead of 2016, which caused me to write this blog post. I have revised the post a bit due to that. Today I … Continue reading
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Tagged activist, anti-discrimination bill, Ash Haffner, bathroom bill, bigots, bisexual, Blake Brockington, Charlotte NC, Constitution of the United States, equal, gay, God, hate, hatred, law, legislators, lesbian, LGBT, Madison, minority, queer youth, queer-identified, rights, self-expression, Skylar Lee, suicide, transgender, transgender youth, Wisconsin
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Forgive the Shooter
On Sunday evening in the small Wisconsin town of Menasha a man apparently distraught over a recent breakup and argument with his former fiancée took two guns with him on his bike and went for a ride. On the middle … Continue reading
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Tagged "eye for an eye", "hill of death", Adam Bentdahl, bridges, Christian, compassion, empathy, Erin Stoffel, faith, forgive, forgiveness, forgiving, guns, hate, hero, heroism, Jim Campbell, Jonathan Stoffel, life story, Little Lake Butte Des Mortes, love, Menasha, Old Testament, Olivia Stoffel, religion, retribution, selflessness, Sergio Daniel Valencia del Toro, shooter, Trestle Trail Bridge, violence, Wisconsin
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Countering Hate
On Friday members of Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church are scheduled to be in my city for a protest at the courthouse. A counter rally is scheduled to greet them. Pretty much everywhere they go around the country they are … Continue reading
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Tagged compassion, counter protest, courthouse, Fred Phelps, hate, love, Madison, protest, rally, Westboro Baptist Church
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