Video From My First Campaign Event
Here’s a sample with links to full video including Q&A to see more from my first campaign event: “If we ask why reactionary movements have been so powerful and so prevalent in American history, one can point to white supremacy protecting greed and brutality, protecting concentrations of political and economic power, but I would point to something deeper: an idolatrous variant of Christianity that worships itself through nationalism, and through the use of domination and violence on behalf of the nation, because it is convinced that those outside the nation are enemies of Christ or, at the very least, inferiors to be converted and ruled.
The idolatrous doctrine of Christian discovery was perhaps first formulated in the words of the papal bull, Dum Diversas, in 1452, and then reiterated in Romanus Pontifex, in 1455. In these bulls, the king of Portugal and his descendants were authorized to “search out” and “enslave in perpetuity” all “Saracens,” “pagans,” and “other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed.”[16] This was what Willie James Jennings has called the “womb” from which white supremacy emerged.[17] This was the “legal” sanction for what Bayo Akomolafe has called the transatlantic slave thefts...”
Video including the Q&A is available here:
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The texts of my presentation and of Lee Hester’s presentation, and the lyrics of Chris Harrington’s song, are available here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/steven3c6/p/three-texts-for-social-democrats?r=21x2h&utm_medium=ios
My campaign website: