"Hands Off" Protests, Trump's Great Digital Book Burning, and Attacks on the Keepers of Truth and History
The latest LIVE episode of The Convocation Unscripted, plus posts from TCU team.
Thanks for all of you who joined us LIVE last night for our latest Convocation Unscripted episode. If you missed it, want to watch it again, or send it to a friend (please do!), it’s here:
In our latest LIVE episode of The Convocation Inscription, we all report from our experiences from the road over the last two weeks—from California, Indiana, Tennessee, and New York. We’re sensing that all of the destruction unleashed by the Trump administration is finally sinking in to a broader swath of Americans, including folks in predominantly white Christian spaces. People are beginning to wake up, not only to the incompetence, but to the critical threat Trump and his presidency is to our pluralistic democracy. We urge people to understand the purges of websites, databases, and exhibits of the lives and work of women, LGBTQ Americans, and Americans of color for what they are—the modern day equivalent of a massive book burning. And we give a grateful shout out to Sen. Cory Booker, who took the record from segregationist Strom Thurman, for the longest speech given in the Senate in our nation’s history—this time calling for a more inclusive vision of America. Finally, we urge people to channel their anxiety, anger, frustration into action by looking for local ways to be loud and to use whatever resources they have now, before it gets even harder, to protect democracy.
Keep going, folks. We need to rock the boat in our society and churches! So many colleagues in the museum field have lost their positions and called a drag on society. The Church will be blamed for this in the future.
Diana mentioned the scrubbing of Pauli Murray from the National Parks website. With no difficulty I found her page (there are actually more than one), and the articles mention her sexuality, gender issues and civil rights activism. So not sure of the accuracy of the claim she has been scrubbed. Here is the link to one page: https://www.nps.gov/places/pauli-murray-family-home.htm. I have checked on other claims of things being scrubbed and found them not to be accurate. I agree that terrible things are happening with the revision of history, but it doesn’t help the cause if our claims are not accurate.