What has to happen before you actively push back at a government transforming into authoritarian state before our eyes?
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Nothing Can Stop Our Celebration Of Black History This year Or Ever.
When Black and Brown families can’t get ahead economically, social justice issues like civil rights and immigration tend to fall on their priority list. When rent hikes eat up raises or grocery bills climb 20% while pay stays flat, social issues become a luxury instead of a necessity.
Back in the day, what happened in Minneapolis, Minnesota with two people being killed within days probably would not have been caught on tape. We didn’t have the technology then, but we have it now.
Why has ICE become a national flashpoint even for people who are not at immediate risk of deportation? The answer isn’t simply immigration policy. It is legitimacy. Under this administration, enforcement has become a public language of governance—highly visible, often forceful, and paired with thinner transparency and weaker restraint.
Which brings us directly to Tillich’s varieties of angst, all three of which coat with a thick paralyzing sludge the insane assumptions of nuclear deterrence. We assume nine nuclear powers can go on forever without making a fatal mistake. We assume that 900 nuclear weapons make us more secure than 600 nuclear weapons, and if another country has 1200 nuclear weapons, we cannot be secure unless we can field 1600. We build; they build. The masters of war achieve prosperous quarterly returns as the Union of Concerned Scientists keeps moving the Doomsday clock closer to zero.
On January 27, 2026, the editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds to midnight―the closest setting, since the appearance of the clock in 1946, to nuclear annihilation.
With the deployment of ICE troops in Minnesota the exploitation goes on. Pam Bondi made that clear in her January 24 letter to Governor Tim Walz, in which she demanded access to voter rolls as a condition for removing federal forces. Voter rolls have nothing to do with immigration.
America is confronting a familiar and dangerous pattern: a population repeatedly told it is a victim, then invited to act like a conqueror. This is the essence of Hate and Bait Syndrome—a psychological and moral trap in which grievance is weaponized, lies are normalized, and cruelty is justified as self-defense.
One hundred years ago, in 1926, Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson established the first Negro History Week. Woodson chose a date in February that encompassed the birthdays of two individuals who were incredibly significant to Black History — former US President Abraham Lincoln and the renowned abolitionist, orator, and intellectual Frederick Douglass. With this observation on the calendar Woodson intended to ensure that Black history would be studied, celebrated, and passed on—especially to Black children. His vision made space for public recognition of Black contributions to civilization and the continued assertion of Black humanity.