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>> The protests were not perfect. Anecdotally and observationally, they were very #white—not exactly representative of the #Democratic coalition.
#Chicago has a significant population of #BlackPeople and other #POC. I took hundreds of pictures, some of which are in this thread 
https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/114288703437767643. It was obvious that #BlackAmerican community was underrepresented.
Also see #CivicSolidarity — #Cops kept #protesters safe!
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#Chicago #HandsOff #Protests
If there is a single poster that sums up today's protests, it has to be this, which says "It's YOU. You're the Problem. Everybody Agrees!"
With so many "Hands Off This, Hands Off That," "This Right and That Right," and one that even tells the American President to "Stop the Attack on the American People," it is clear that there are many voices, but they are not discordant. If #Trump has riled up SO MANY Americans even before his 100 days are up, HE IS THE PROBLEM
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Education Hour 10am [for]
Adults [in]
Fellowship Hall [at First Presbyterian Church of Monterey.]
During January and February of 2025, we'll offer a course on one of the most remarkable stories of the Christian church in America: how enslaved African Americans learned about and embraced Christianity, in the process changing the way other Americans experienced and understood the faith. The course,
\"Christianity and American Slavery,\" will present stories that may surprise you, while answering your questions about how an enslaved people survived 250 years of bondage and how their descendants survived and combatted a century of Jim Crow.
You may be surprised to learn that during the first century of slavery in the southern United States, most southern slaveowners and clergymen avoided sharing the Christian faith with enslaved people, out of fear that the gospel message would undermine the slave system. This fear proved prophetic. In the 1730s, British missionaries began traveling through the South, preaching to large crowds and igniting the \"Great Awakening,\" and their message inspired the enslaved to resist their situation. Ellen Tucker will lead this course, using visual resources developed")