A video by Phil Vischer, creator of Christian cartoon series VeggieTales, explains to his white evangelical audience why people are in the streets protesting racism and police brutality. “I’m not here to tell you what the right solutions are, because I don’t know. I’m just here to ask you to do one thing — it is the thing that begins every journey to a solution for every problem. What am I asking you do to? Care.”
18 minutes and well worth it, even if Bob the Tomato isn’t involved.
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Image: “King Leopold II of Belgium, Snake of the Congo,” Edward Linley Sambourne, Punch, 1906
On Tuesday, the 60th anniversary of the independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgian King Philippe expressed his regrets to DRC President Félix Tshisekedi for the atrocities commited by King Leopold II, who held the Congo as a personal fiefdom from 1885 to 1908 and killed approximately 10 million of its people, many of whom were maimed and tortured. King Philippe didn’t actually apologize.
The atrocities comitted under King Leopold II were documented by African American missionary William Henry Sheppard, who brought a Kodak camera to the Congo in 1900. The “regrets” of King Philippe were motivated by Belgium’s ongoing Black Lives Matter protests which targeted the country’s many monuments to King Leopold II and his generals.
“Beside Leopold, Nero, Caligula, Attilo, Torquemada, Genghis Khan and such killers of men are mere amateurs.” Mark Twain, New York World, December 3, 1905.
More:
“Belgium’s King Sends Letter of Regret Over Colonial Past in Congo,” Monika Pronczuk and Megan Specia, New York Times
“Belgian king expresses ‘deepest regrets’ for brutal colonial rule,” Jennifer Rankin and Jason Burke, The Guardian
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American Sign Language interpreter Rorri Burton, who has been working for Los Angeles County, explains why not everyone signs “Black Lives Matter” the same way.
More:
“How do you sign ‘Black Lives Matter’ in ASL? For black deaf Angelenos, it’s complicated,” Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times
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“What It Means,” written by Patterson Hood and recorded by him with Drive-By Truckers.
“And that guy who killed that kid down in Florida standing ground
Is free to beat up on his girlfriend and wave his brand-new gun around.”
Drive-By Truckers website
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