The truth in Black and white: An apology from The Kansas City Star. In a six-part investigation, @KCStar finds it "scorned generations of Black Kansas Citians and...robbed an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice and recognition."

As floodwater upended Black lives in 1977, Kansas City newspapers fixated on Plaza, suburbs and all but ignored how the flood destroyed the homes of Black citizens -- part of @KCStar investigation of itself in, "The Truth in Black and White." https://t.co/tCyAoEhIaC
Charlie Parker? Jackie Robinson? For The Star, Kansas City Black culture was invisible https://t.co/hrTahE6wpi
When civil rights movement marched forward, @KCStar lagged behind. The newsroom was run by white men. They overlooked the protest the way they overlooked nearly everything else involving the Black community in the mid-60s https://t.co/XAUursYfnY
‘Brutes’ and murderers: Black people overlooked in KC coverage — except for crime. Rarely, even up into the 1960s, did the papers doubt, challenge or investigate the police version of events, or interview Black victims. https://t.co/dpaibGBQZm
KC schools broke federal desegregation law for decades. The Star stayed quiet and didn’t point out the disenfranchisement or violation of federal law or how from '61 to '63 alone the board changed 24 attendance boundaries to keep the status quo. https://t.co/TsY2Z7SPiN
J.C. Nichols’ whites-only neighborhoods, boosted by Star’s founder, leave indelible mark, laying the foundation for a system that denied Black families access to a housing market that created wealth for generations of white families. https://t.co/95Sc4hcNrH
@KCStar forms advisory group to ensure fair, inclusive coverage of communities of color. Looking back, coming to terms with @KCStar's disgraceful treatment of the Black community is only a beginning. More important will be the steps we take going forward. https://t.co/sSXyNPPdBS
Sins of omission: Too often, Kansas City Star Editorial Board has been silent on race and a recurring unwillingness to speak hard truths to the people in power in Kansas City. https://t.co/Ujz3kBKe3T

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Imagine if Christians sold all their possessions and gave it to the poor.

Imagine if they relentlessly stood up for the widow, the orphan, and the foreigner.

Imagine if they worshipped a God whose response to political power was to reject it.

Or cancelled all debt owed them?

Imagine if the primary orientation of Christians was what others needed, not what they deserved.

Imagine Christians with no interest in protecting what they had.

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Imagine Christians who saved their forgiveness and mercy for others, rather than saving it for themselves.

Whose empathy went first to the abused, not the abuser.

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This is NONSENSE. The people who take photos with their books on instagram are known to be voracious readers who graciously take time to review books and recommend them to their followers. Part of their medium is to take elaborate, beautiful photos of books. Die mad, Guardian.


THEY DO READ THEM, YOU JUDGY, RACOON-PICKED TRASH BIN


If you come for Bookstagram, i will fight you.

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Great article from @AsheSchow. I lived thru the 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980's/early 1990's asking myself "Has eveyrbody lost their GODDAMN MINDS?!"


The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.

1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!

2) "Repressed memory" syndrome

3) Facilitated Communication [FC]

All 3 led to massive abuse.

"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.

Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.

FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.