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Pharoah + Moses revisit their talks on religion and race

or: A few texts for processing SCOTUS' horrific Voting Rights Act attack

Pharoah + Moses revisit their talks on religion and race
Image of a young person with a sign that says "LET MY PEOPLE VOTE" on day five of the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965 that lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965

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This first piece is from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's speech at the Religion and Race conference in 1963 at which he first met Dr. King:

At the first conference on religion and race, the main participants were Pharaoh and Moses... The outcome of that summit meeting has not come to an end. Pharaoh is not ready to capitulate. The exodus began, but is far from having been completed. In fact, it was easier for the children of Israel to cross the Red Sea than for a [Black American] to cross certain university campuses.
... What is an idol? Any god who is mine but not yours, any god concerned with me but not with you, is an idol.

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