It was a social worker coming to see me on a visit. It was her third time in as many months, and I knew she was reluctant after the first visit, the initial introduction visit, when she would have looked at the titles on my bookshelves. I could see it in her eyes that I was "Other." I had been Other for three and a half months, but somehow, this was different.
It was as if I were found out: I hadn't slept so a pod, a copy of me, could emerge and whitewash me of my strange and "leftists" perspective"
And you don't believe in the Resurrection?
It wasn't enough to try critical thinking while a spreading of old Southern values was long underway!
The worst of what Black Americans experienced for 400 years, patriarchy and masculinity with a heaping of cruelty, would come together again in the 1940s when fundamentalists form the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE). As Kristin Kobes Du Mez writes in Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted A Faith and Fractured A Nation, "to evangelize the nation, evangelicals needed magazines that could reach millions, and access to airwaves for national radio broadcasts. They needed organizations for missions, and for evangelical colleges and Bible schools. They already possessed the resources and the brain power. What was missing was a network that would support and amplify these individual efforts." Pods, pods, everywhere!
In the 1940s, the movement of Right-winged evangelicalism received a boost from the Rev. Billy Graham.
"Kindred" spirits continued to come aboard, including those of Charles Colson, Ronald Reagan, Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Chaney, and Donald Rumsfeld. By 2016, following Trump who attracted attention with talk of "Mexican 'rapists' and drugs and crime and terrorists crossing the border," the wealthy class caved in.
They are taking our jobs!
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