Saturday, September 9, 2023

The Security Apparatus Loves White Supremacy

Probably the most racist thing I encountered during my LDS childhood (and there were many) was the time we went to Youth Conference at Gettysburg College when I was 16.  Instead of touring the sites and monuments of the battle like any reasonable youth group, we only went to the battlefield to play a silly and offensive game of "Lamanites vs. Nephites" in which we reenacted some supposed battle in which the wicked and cursed dark-skinned ancestors of the indigenous peoples of the Americas killed their more righteous and still-white kinspeople.  That's right - we play-acted some mythic battle of a ludicrous cult of white supremacy on the very ground in which the US Army courageously battled to stop the advances of a cause of white supremacy, losing thousands of men in the process.

It was even more absurd than the time two years earlier when we had to watch a silly pageant depicting such events on the hill where Joseph Smith claimed to have received gold plates from the prophet-warrior turned angel Moroni, who was the last representative of that supposed group of white Israelites to not be killed by their savage, dark-skinned brethren. 

Saturday, September 2, 2023

The Great Atlantic and Pacific Athletic Conference

 It's great that the ACC Basketball Tournament will finally be properly honoring Jason Kidd and Phil Chenier as ACC Legends.