Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 19, 2021
Juneteenth: Confronting Our Past
Juneteenth marks the final recognition of a people as human beings, possessed of souls and free will.
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 1, 2021
One Century Later, What the Tulsa Massacre Can Tell Us About Today
As we confront a 10-year high in hate crimes, the 1921 destruction of a vibrant and prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
April 23, 2021
Why Anti-Asian Hate Has No Place in Our Society
Targeting people, especially strangers at random, to be punished simply because of how they look or where they come from is...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 24, 2021
How Cicely Tyson Raised the Bar for Us All
Her life paralleled nearly a century of “givens” in terms of limited opportunities for women, specifically Black women...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 23, 2021
Black History Month Marks the Anniversary of “The Birth of a Nation”: Hatred Written With Lightning
It was hailed as “the world’s mightiest spectacle,” “the eighth wonder of the world,” and “history written with...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 15, 2020
Hatred Turns to Love in the Miracle of North Little Rock
But something different happened. Neighbors, hearing of the incident on social media, responded in solidarity. Seven-foot-tall...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 9, 2020
Justice: A Lesson I’ve Learned in Scientology
No one deserves that. Yet the world is full of such conflicts. What can we do about it? Personal justice starts with each...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
November 11, 2020
Can Casual Bigotry End Lives?
Recently a 17-year-old white woman was discovered to be planning a copycat mass murder of Black congregants who attended Bethel...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 7, 2020
Get With It, America—a Teenager’s Appeal for Religious Tolerance
With everything going on in the world right now, it is time to change. It is time to stop condoning discrimination of any...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 13, 2020
The Real Divide in America, and Where We Go From Here
It sometimes takes an extraordinary amount of courage and patience—and maybe even what some would call grace—to allow...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 11, 2017
Why Is Scientology Treated “Unfairly?”
Cultures change slowly. I was born in 1945. When I was growing up in Washington, D.C., discrimination against African Americans,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 31, 2017
Taking Action Against Discrimination: Harry Truman
“For these compelling reasons, we can no longer afford the luxury of a leisurely attack upon prejudice and discrimination.”
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 28, 2017
An Open Letter from a Scientologist & Black Man to Tampa Bay Times Bigots
You see, I understand I am just another “nigger,” and you know what is best for me. You deem yourself my Master. You are...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 12, 2017
Haters Gonna Hate
Overly tall, olive-skinned, with full lips and unmanageable curly hair I looked odd among both the children of German refugees...
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