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"There's no context where this is acceptable."

“This should be deleted immediately,”  wrote  Sean Feucht, a Christian performer and activist who is partnering with the Trump administration for a series of worship events tied to the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. “There’s no context where this is acceptable.”

 

From <https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-deletes-jesus-photo-pope-backlash-b2956771.html>

Entry #217

A nation cannot be united if different groups have different basic rights...

Putting birthright citizenship in the Constitution meant:

         No state could override it

         No future Congress could undo it

         No court could reinterpret it away

It became a locked-in guarantee.

 

The U.S. needed:

  A way to prevent states from creating secondclass populations

Entry #215

The World knows

The Black Tudors (1485–1603)

 

 

John Blanke — Royal Musician to Henry VII & Henry VIII (1500s)

 

African Muslim Rulers of Iberia (711–1492)

 

John “the Moor” — Chamberlain to Emperor Frederick II (13th Century)

 

Septimius Severus — Roman Emperor (193–211 CE)

 

Saint Augustine of Hippo was African, with African family roots, and almost certainly had indigenous North African (Berber) ancestry through his mother. Augustinian monks are named after Saint Augustine of Hippo because they follow his Rule and spiritual tradition.He is the direct inspiration and namesake of the Augustinian Canons, Augustinian Hermits, and all branches of the Augustinian family

 

The U.S. Constitution once considered Black people were 

         Property

         Noncitizens

         People without rights

         A population used to boost the power of slave states

 

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