<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Black Lives Matter </span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Learn & Take Action for December 2020 #1</span><br class=""><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">LEARN</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> – “You are a SOCIALIST!” is arguably the most derogatory slur
conservatives can give progressives. This harkens back to the suppression of
Blacks from <b class=""><i class="">a century and a half ago</i></b> when rich white landowners didn’t want
Black men to vote. Socialism being equated with something awful is racism. Read
about socialism and Black suppression in history </span><a href="http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/articles/how-internal-racism-and-external-disinformation-campaigns-turn-us-against-each-other/" class="">HERE</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">For a deeper dive into
the correlation between being accused of being socialist and racism, listen to Heather Cox
Richardson on Nov. 19, 2020 </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson/videos/1607776152739832" class="">HERE</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">. If
you want to listen for less than an hour, begin at 54:00. Then if you are learning and want to hear more, start at the beginning. <o:p class=""></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class="">(Follow historian Dr. Heather Cox Richardson on Facebook)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">TAKE ACTION</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> – Write physical letters this holiday season, </span><a href="https://store.usps.com/store/results/stamps/black-history/_/N-9y93lvZ1l6udzk?Nrpp=18" class="">purchase
stamps that represent Blacks</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">, and support the US Postal Service. The recent slow down of the postal service before the election and the attempt to begin to privatize it is likely racist, as over 20% of USPS workers are Black.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Not sending out cards this year? Respond with a personal note to the sender of the holiday cards you receive. What a gift to your friend/relative! Your support of the USPS will help. </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Read about <i class="">Write Black Love Letters</i> </span><a href="https://www.essence.com/entertainment/only-essence/black-lives-matter-letters-usps-campaign/" class="">HERE</a><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Ginger
Goral, Social Justice committee, Lake Country Unitarian Universalist Church,
</span><a href="http://lcuuc.org/" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">lcuuc.org</a></p><!--EndFragment--></div></div><br class=""></body></html>