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Fayetteville, Arkansas, flies Black History Month banner declaring “Black Lives Matter”

On Thursday, a tweet depicting a Black History Month banner hanging in Fayetteville, Arkansas, went viral.

According to the latest US Census numbers, Fayetteville is, in fact, about 80% white. And, according to Susan Norton, communications director for the city of Fayetteville, the banner is hanging on Dixon Street.

“Fayetteville does honor and respect, deliberately and intentionally, all people,” Norton said in a phone interview. “We celebrate black history, LGBTQ people, we celebrate new Americans, we celebrate immigrants.”

Norton also said the town is an officially designated “compassionate city” and that the same group that worked to get that status, Compassion Fayetteville, put up the banner. Read more

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Bernie Sanders teaches Ted Cruz and Donald Trump what New York values really are.

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Respect to this soldier, he’s basically just put his middle finger up to these bigots.

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Damn daniel 💀 💀

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MARIA WITH THE SHITS

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Mama cat encourages her kitten to escape

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Watch: Bernie says there’s one Trump quote he hasn’t figured out yet and is still “recovering from.”

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Open letter to Christians and Americans who don’t understand the issue involving the Middle East,

Please understand that I do not hate you nor do I think you are wrong for your beliefs in any shape or form. I believe that everyone has a right to the freedoms stated in the first amendment. We live in a state of terror, scared that we will be the victims of a terrorist attack and we need to take action. However, that action is not to threaten others that are innocent and are not a part of Isis. In every religion you have the radicals that take things too far, like the West Burrow Baptist Church. We cannot blame all Muslims for ISIS just like we cannot blame all Christian’s for the crazy terrorist that comes from the Christian faith. We need to stay united and understand that ISIS is not the entire religion, seeing as there are 1.8 billion Muslims in the world. ISIS is a small portion of the religion and we must stop assuming that all Muslims want to kill those who don’t believe in the same religion as them. So, my fellow human beings here is what we should not do: threaten to bomb a mosque just because you associate all Muslims with isis, threaten to shoot a Muslim purely based on their religion, or any acts of hate crimes based on a persons beliefs. These are all crimes and makes you no better than ISIS. We also have to understand that, like Christianity, there are different kinds of Islam and that just because one group is hateful not all of them are. The fight against ISIS is not only being fought buy Christians but also by Muslims. ISIS does not just kill Christians they kill Muslims as well, which is why Syrian refugees are fleeing. We are letting ISIS win because we are scared and we are threatening the innocent. Please educate yourself on Islam and understand that if you are threatening a person based on their religion you are no better than a person killing a black person because of the color of their skin. We will not win this war if we don’t understand who and what we are fighting against. No innocent lives should be taken on any side. Bombing is not helping obviously; we are killing innocent people that are scared just as much as we are. We are helping ISIS recruit because we are killing the innocent and that makes people mad, and gives them a common enemy. We must help those who are scared in their homes; we must help fight against ISIS in a logical way. We need to change our strategy, which has obviously not worked in the Middle East.

In my lifetime, I cannot remember a time we were not at war and in fact we have been in the Middle East my entire life. We need a new strategy because our current one is not working. American lives have been lost, and I think I can speak for most people with a loved one in the military; I would like to hug my loved one again. We aren’t just losing our military members; we are losing civilians who are loved as well. I don’t have a solution that will work to completely destroy ISIS, however, threatening Muslims based on faith is not the solution. I understand we are scared, which ISIS has succeeded in terrifying us, we cannot take that fear out on people who happen to be born into a religion. Be better than that. I was raised a Christian, I understand the ideology. I understand that we were all taught the good parts of the bible, however, I was never taught the parts that were quite horrific. Now that I am older I have learned more about the bible and how contradictory it is. Personally I cannot ignore the bad parts of the bible just because there are good parts. And because I am so curious I have looked into the Quran as well and guess what, there are good parts in the Quran and there are bad parts. You cannot ignore the bad parts of the bible because they are not convenient; you have to acknowledge the horrible parts. The bible is contradictory, the quran is contradictory. I am all for a good debate but do not tell me that there is no bad parts in the bible but the quran is all bad, no that is an ignorant statement and I will not debate that. If you want to debate with me come to me prepared, no blanket statements. At the end of the day I just want everyone to be accepting and understanding (hint, hint which is what Christians and Muslims are supposed to be about). It is bigoted to hate all Muslims because of ISIS; it is ridiculous to threaten the entire group because of a small minority. Leave your bubble and learn about the world and the people you are outspokenly against.

This all being said I want everyone to understand I do not hate on Christianity, or Islam. I am not hating on you personally, unless you are the small minority of ignorant people hating on a religion you know nothing about besides that ISIS identifies as Islam. I understand that it is not a majority of Christians and I want us all to live in peace knowing our loved ones are same. ISIS will win if we do not stand together and fight for love and freedom. I’m not perfect, I know that I do not know everything about this topic but my message to everyone is to educate yourself on the subject before you speak. I’m still learning about this issue and we should all learn for ourselves and not take the medias word. There is a bias in the media and everyone should understand that there is a bias to all forms or media (fox news is bias and everyone has a right to understand they purposely leave out information to fit their agenda). Preach love not hate for all human kind, at the end of the day we are all humans and we must love everyone.

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