<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 class="">Black Lives Matter </span></b><span class="">- Learn & Take Action for April 2021 #1</span><br class=""><div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><i class=""><span class="">LEARN</span></i></b><span class=""> – Anti-abortion sprung as a more palatable issue than racism
for Christian Nationalists. Read </span><a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133" class="">THIS</a><span class=""> and learn how racism is at the core of
anti-abortion sentiments. You can listen to NPR Morning Edition on this subject </span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/734303135/throughline-traces-evangelicals-history-on-the-abortion-issue" class="">HERE</a><font class=""> Also, learn the vocabulary word obdurate (stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action) and </font><a href="https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/obduracy" class="">obduracy</a><span class=""> in this
article – it’s a useful word these days.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><i class=""><span class="">TAKE ACTION</span></i></b><span class=""> – Republican (or lean GOP) white people think that
white people </span><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/03/18/majorities-of-americans-see-at-least-some-discrimination-against-black-hispanic-and-asian-people-in-the-u-s/" class="">are discriminated against</a><font class=""> about the same amount as Black people (63%). Being racist and calling out those who see systemic
racism is part of the plan, according to </font><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/29/republicans-want-you-call-their-policies-racist-its-part-their-plan/" class="">this opinion.</a><font class=""> We saw it in Oconomowoc’s local non-partisan school board
race, and it’s evident in national politics too. Begin to see how current issues are intended to
continue white supremacy.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<span class="">Ginger
Goral, Social Justice committee, Lake Country Unitarian Universalist Church,
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