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Discrimination, Inequality, and Exclusion
Don’t like how things are going? Then DIE.
BY E.R. BILLS
As much as so many people associated with MAGA seem to hate acronyms designated for programs designed to actually make America great — or at least better (i.e., DEI, NPR, BLM, etc.) — you’d think they’d have come up with an acronym to signify their own program to stress their values and their goals in response to these difficult issues. They need their own catchy nomenclature that gets at the bedrock of who they really, indicates what they really stand for, and makes their own compelling, honest case. I can simp-athize.
And I’ve got it.
They should call their program to address their position and philosophy “Discrimination, Inequality, and Exclusion.” It perfectly and eloquently interprets their sincere intentions regarding these problems and encapsulates their political representatives’ policy designs to achieve these goals.
They simply have to swap a couple of the letters in the enemy’s acronym for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) with DIE. Again — and altogether now — Discrimination, Inequality, and Exclusion.
Why fix it if it ain’t broke?
I know, I know. The homos and vatos and journos will start screaming like the stuck pigs they are because they’ll know the silent majority has flipped the script on them again. They’ll be pissing themselves. Our pinko-commie, hippie-fag, bleeding-heart neighbors — err, I meant those hippie-fag, bleeding-heart neighbors (’cause we’re cahootin’ Putin now) — will be whining to their godless heaven. After swapping some letters, we can sit back and scoff at their knee-jerk humanity.
“Save the Whales” is suddenly Save the Wails (coming from entitled white people).
“Save the Rainforests” becomes Save the Vain Flourish (of unfairly put-upon billionaires).
“Coexist” transforms into Roll Sexist (and
After swapping some letters, we can sit back and scoff at their knee-jerk humanity.
Bible-mandated white-male fragility — the patriarchal foundation of this entire nation — is rightfully restored).
Turn the libtard lingo on its head, and — bam! — their intolerable impulse toward human decency is DOA. Because your new, bigger, better, winning, and, yes, great social program of Discrimination, Inequality, and Exclusion — DIE — is now the law of the land, and there’s nothing wackademics, the Fleece Corps, or Travesty International can do about it.
It’s stark, raving homogenous!
“Genius,” I mean.
If you’re here illegally because you fled some banana republic that our intelligence community destabilized and continued on page 9
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If you’re here already but descended from an ethnic group who were treated like livestock for the first 400 years after their arrival and are struggling with and suffering from (or *wink wink* faking) the effects of generational trauma or our continued active or passive-aggressive acumen for systemic inequality — DIE.
The Middle Passage is the only thing that allowed you to be a part of the diddled middle class in these United States of America to begin with!
If you’re having difficulty accepting or conforming to real Christian sexual mores and you just want to find someone like you who loves you, and you want that love accepted or at least in some way protected — DIE. The Holey Scripture says you’re an abomination, and that makes you a perversion averse to Judeo-heterosexual domination!
If you’re simply a normal human being who wants to enjoy the tenets of the formerly
admired American Way or strive toward what were previously known as American ideals, yearning for fairness, justice, hope, and the American Dream or even our national motto — e pluribus unum (diversity, equity, and inclusion by another name) — DIE. No one likes a smarty-pants anyway, and we’re sloganin’ with Rogan, who doesn’t know any Latin and makes millions two-centsing dreamy UFC wannabes that the motto is as blotto as the sentiment!
And if you don’t like our new makeup-caked, pornstar-extorted, flaccid, shitstain leader of the unfree world — you’re catching on now — DIE. DIE.
DIE.
DIE. l
Fort Worth native E.R. Bills is the author of The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas and Tell-Tale Texas: Investigations in Infamous History
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Welcome to the Family
Jubilee Theatre is home to creativity, learning, and diversity.
STORY AND PHOTOS BY MADELYN EDWARDS
On your first visit to Jubilee Theatre, which showcases stories about the African American experience, you are considered a good friend. A second trip downtown elevates you to companion status, and by the third visit, you are deemed part of the family.
That’s what audience members were told on a recent Saturday afternoon performance of The Movement, an a cappella musical that shines light on the group of Black teenagers who protested in Alabama during the Civil Rights movement. While catching up with D. Wambui Richardson, Jubilee’s artistic director, he defined this family as “a place where you are heard, where you are seen, where you are loved, where it is OK for us to disagree with one another, but it’s how we choose to disagree with one another.”
Jubilee Theatre is about halfway through its 44th season, which centers on roots and heritage — a fitting theme for a theater founded on Juneteenth of 1981.
Created by Rudy and Marian Eastman in Fort Worth, Jubilee boasts the title of “original home of African American theater in North Texas.” Jubilee had its first season at 1801 E. Vickery Blvd., then became a nomadic theater as its players performed in multiple venues. In 1987, Jubilee moved into a dedicated space across from Texas Wesleyan University, then, by the ’90s, Jubilee’s board raised enough money to take over a space in Sundance Square, 506 Main St., where Jubilee resides today. From then on, the theater saw a period of growth in audience attendance, production values, budget, and accolades.
For Board President Anita Heiskell, Jubilee’s biggest accomplishment is its existence as “one of the only African American theaters in this area, having a place where people know where we are, and being able to produce and direct some amazing productions for people to come out and see.”
Richardson, who has 30 years of experience in the arts and has served at multiple
institutions throughout the country, joined the team at Jubilee in 2018. He’s the one who picks the productions each season, and he prioritizes creating a space where artists can grow their talents. Though Jubilee is dedicated to telling stories that illuminate the African American experience, Richardson said he looks for productions that unify all kinds of people.
Jubilee Managing Director Janaé Willis-Beard said, “We are a Black theater, but Black history is American history, and our stories are American stories. Our stories are for everyone.”
Not long after Richardson started at Jubilee, the pandemic hit and created a hardship for live theater across the country and world. While Jubilee did survive, and Heiskell even said the theater fared well during this time, getting people to attend in-person shows like they used to has been difficult. Richardson said before COVID, Jubilee could fill 93-95% of the theater for musicals and 80-85% for non-musicals. Attendance now is considerably less, and Richardson said he’s heard his contemporaries say, “60% is the new 100%.”
The reality, Richardson said, is that “we are more comfortable now at home, and so it’s about creating experiences that encourage us to come outside and really selling the vision and the importance of being and sharing the same space with one another.”
In the post-COVID theater scene, audiences show more support for productions that they are already familiar with.
“The tricky part is how do you educate an audience on something that they don’t know or something that hasn’t been on TV or a title that hasn’t been a book?” Richardson said. “Audiences want to go with something that’s tried and true. The reality of that is most theaters are not in a position to financially only produce those types of shows. The second part of that is if all of us as theaters were to only do the shows that have already been done, there’s a whole generation of young and emerging artists whose work would never be seen.”
For this reason, Jubilee’s production of The Movement (which runs through March 2) was a risk. Set in 1963 in Birmingham,
Alabama, it tells the true story of the Children’s Crusade, in which more than 1,000 students skipped school and marched downtown as part of a public demonstration. The characters describe themselves as ordinary teens of the day — cheerleaders, nerds, and football players, all motivated to do something to stop the violence against Black people. The kids stepped up, knowing that their parents could lose their jobs for protesting. The students endured police violence, and many were arrested. Media coverage of the demonstration grabbed the country’s attention, and the Civil Rights movement gained momentum from the crusade.
The Movement is a story about the past, but it also has connections with the current political climate as the teenagers wrestled with questions of how to make a difference and debated the best ways to protest. Even the history that Americans have access to is called into question by the musical’s very existence. The Movement recognizes that the audience is probably familiar with leading Civil Rights activists like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, but there is a knowledge gap when it comes to the students who participated in the Children’s Crusade.
“These young people are heroes, and we don’t know about them,” Heiskell said.
Continuing to create high-quality productions, like The Movement, is what Jubilee’s board of directors is focusing on moving forward, as well as fundraising. Heiskell called on the community to support Jubilee Theatre through donations and sponsorships, not just by buying tickets.
“When people buy tickets, that’s not what keeps the doors open,” Heiskell said. “It’s great for people to buy tickets and buy our season passes, our Flex Passes. We love that, but those aren’t the funds that keep us open. The funds that keep us open are the continuous donations and the sponsorships and things like that.”
Jubilee Theatre is also a place for creatives to learn and hone their crafts. The theater started a summer youth education program and is fundraising for a high school theater program in collaboration with local school districts. Jubilee also offers apprenticeship opportunities for production crew members to get experience.
“At the heart of our founders was for this to be a learning and teaching institution,” Willis-Beard said. “This was a space for them to come, learn, and then try it out, make mistakes, know it was going to be OK, and as a community, as a family, we help each other to get better at our craft and at our skills.”
For Willis-Beard, what makes Jubilee a special place to work is the creativity that flows throughout the theater and motivates those who inhabit the space.
“There’s something about being within the walls of Jubilee Theatre,” she said. “It awakens whatever type of creativity you have. It doesn’t have to necessarily be singing or dancing or drawing. It can just be the creative way that you look at problems, and you solve them. There’s something that is just in these walls, and when you come into this space, you begin to feel free and able to just express yourself however you need to.” l
Located at 506 Main St., Jubilee Theatre showcases stories about the African American experience. Productions during the theater’s 44th season are focused on roots and heritage.
Set in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, The Movement tells the true story of the Children’s Crusade, in which more than 1,000 students skipped school and marched downtown as part of a public demonstration. The play runs through March 2.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY INCREMENTAL REVOLUTION
By Rob Brezsny
I am a revolutionary. My desires to fulfill my own personal life goals are strong, but equally strong are my longings to be of service to the greater good. I want to align myself and harmonize my efforts with dear
colleagues: people who treasure an empathetic, compassionate, creative way of being in the world.
Lately, I must admit, our efforts have seemed almost impossible. Many of us are understandably anxious about how everything seems upside-down and inside-out. Somehow, we’ve got to figure out how to be both wrathful insurrectionaries and exuberant lovers of life.
We’ve got to cultivate cheerful buoyancy even as we fiercely resist and refute the thousands of delusions that have been carefully crafted and seductively packaged by the know-it-all deceivers. Maybe most importantly, we have to be forcefully and boisterously dedicated to the cause of beauty and truth and love.
My understanding of revolution is different from that of some people, however. They believe “revolution” means a sudden, radical destruction and demise of the sick old order and the rapid, thoroughgoing bloom of a beautiful new order. I have a different perspective.
While I am all in favor of giant, positive transformations, my natural style of revolution is incremental, persistent, and diligent. In my experience, major shifts in how life works are more likely to come about through a measured approach. Same with politics.
And so the revolutionary fervor that my colleagues and I stoke is tenacious, determined, and detail-oriented. The revolution we seek happens gradually, relentlessly, and inexorably.
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