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@BaldHeadQueen @stewartdantec 3/ Clearly, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. perceived the spiritual role and significance of African-American suffering to the larger American Project. Did he also anticipate the world, in its entirety, would one day pivot upon the transfiguration of Black American experience?

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 25 Oct 2021

@stewartdantec Couple of thoughts. First, “Those who commit the murders write the reports.” - Ida Bae Wells. As with so much else, supremacist denial mimetically and automatically defines the content, structure and direction of the dominant attention span, religious emphasis included.

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Quoted by@nhannahjones The dominant media picture is White-dominated, and where the US media picture goes, so goes the planet. What to do about it then?Quoted by@moshik_temkin 2/ The attention span is, of course, the salient currency of the Web Era. Enough has already been spoken about the economic logic of feeding it outrage. White, which is to say ‘dominative’ religion, but the conjoined twin pillar of the supremacist Spectacle, in this regard.