Mark Anslem
@epluribusmarcus.bsky.social
Human | Openly Black | “I greet you with the love of God that don't make us friends.” —Malice | “I'm dipped in God's black complexion.” —Black Thought
“There is no amount of Christmas shoeboxes sent to children that can justify the suffering or alleviate the pain in the lives of people—including children—catching hell at the behest of the Trump regime.”
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“There is no amount of Christmas shoeboxes sent to children that can justify the suffering or alleviate the pain in the lives of people—including children—catching hell at the behest of the Trump regime.”
“It is beyond treacherous to send messages of the gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth—claiming to bring good tidings of joy and peace—while praising and celebrating a regime that devilishly denies refuge to people from nations who seek safety in America.”
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“It is beyond treacherous to send messages of the gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth—claiming to bring good tidings of joy and peace—while praising and celebrating a regime that devilishly denies refuge to people from nations who seek safety in America.”
“It is beyond hypocritical to cajole and to implore people to send shoeboxes filled with relatively cheap Christmas gifts to children around the world, while uncritically and unabashedly supporting a regime that sadistically cuts off humanitarian aid . . .”
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➡️ open.substack.com/pub/markansl...
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“It is beyond hypocritical to cajole and to implore people to send shoeboxes filled with relatively cheap Christmas gifts to children around the world, while uncritically and unabashedly supporting a regime that sadistically cuts off humanitarian aid . . .”
➡️ open.substack.com/pub/markansl...
➡️ open.substack.com/pub/markansl...
If he ever went to sleep, I hope Zohran Mamdani woke up listening to Kendrick Lamar’s “wacced out murals.”
That’s the type of time I’m on.
That’s the type of time I’m on.
November 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
If he ever went to sleep, I hope Zohran Mamdani woke up listening to Kendrick Lamar’s “wacced out murals.”
That’s the type of time I’m on.
That’s the type of time I’m on.
re: Christian Nationalism
@marclamonthill.bsky.social interviews antheabutler.bsky.social, distinguished professor of religion, chair of the department of Religious Studies at UPenn, and author of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America.
FULL: youtu.be/nM8bXD2FpQ4?...
@marclamonthill.bsky.social interviews antheabutler.bsky.social, distinguished professor of religion, chair of the department of Religious Studies at UPenn, and author of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America.
FULL: youtu.be/nM8bXD2FpQ4?...
October 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
re: Christian Nationalism
@marclamonthill.bsky.social interviews antheabutler.bsky.social, distinguished professor of religion, chair of the department of Religious Studies at UPenn, and author of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America.
FULL: youtu.be/nM8bXD2FpQ4?...
@marclamonthill.bsky.social interviews antheabutler.bsky.social, distinguished professor of religion, chair of the department of Religious Studies at UPenn, and author of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America.
FULL: youtu.be/nM8bXD2FpQ4?...
“The time has come, God knows, for us to examine ourselves, but we can only do this if we are willing to free ourselves of the myth of America and try to find out what is really happening here.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
October 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“The time has come, God knows, for us to examine ourselves, but we can only do this if we are willing to free ourselves of the myth of America and try to find out what is really happening here.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
This is such a good conversation between @jamellebouie.net, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, and @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social.
FULL EPISODE: ‘The Opinions’ Podcast: There Is No Trump Without the South: youtu.be/dqpJKPCY64Y?...
🎥: @nytimesoped.bsky.social
FULL EPISODE: ‘The Opinions’ Podcast: There Is No Trump Without the South: youtu.be/dqpJKPCY64Y?...
🎥: @nytimesoped.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This is such a good conversation between @jamellebouie.net, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, and @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social.
FULL EPISODE: ‘The Opinions’ Podcast: There Is No Trump Without the South: youtu.be/dqpJKPCY64Y?...
🎥: @nytimesoped.bsky.social
FULL EPISODE: ‘The Opinions’ Podcast: There Is No Trump Without the South: youtu.be/dqpJKPCY64Y?...
🎥: @nytimesoped.bsky.social
“If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
October 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
“We need the spirit of Fred Hampton to come alive among us today to say it doesn’t matter what color you are. It doesn’t matter where you’re from. It matters if they got their boot on your neck.
—Rev. William H. Lamar IV
🎥: Metropolitan AME (Washington, D.C.)
—Rev. William H. Lamar IV
🎥: Metropolitan AME (Washington, D.C.)
October 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“We need the spirit of Fred Hampton to come alive among us today to say it doesn’t matter what color you are. It doesn’t matter where you’re from. It matters if they got their boot on your neck.
—Rev. William H. Lamar IV
🎥: Metropolitan AME (Washington, D.C.)
—Rev. William H. Lamar IV
🎥: Metropolitan AME (Washington, D.C.)
There are A LOT of good books and other literature that speak to where we are as a nation. Ijeoma Oluo’s (@ijeomaoluo.bsky.social) Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America is one of them.
October 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
There are A LOT of good books and other literature that speak to where we are as a nation. Ijeoma Oluo’s (@ijeomaoluo.bsky.social) Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America is one of them.
I haven’t listened to this album in so long. Definitely a good time to revisit it. #85toAfrica
September 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I haven’t listened to this album in so long. Definitely a good time to revisit it. #85toAfrica
Tupac Shakur warned us about rappers like Young Thung.
September 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Tupac Shakur warned us about rappers like Young Thung.
“I will state flatly that the bulk of this country's white population impresses me, and has so impressed me for a very long time, as being beyond any conceivable hope of moral rehabilitation.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
September 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“I will state flatly that the bulk of this country's white population impresses me, and has so impressed me for a very long time, as being beyond any conceivable hope of moral rehabilitation.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
August 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
—Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
—Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
August 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
—Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
—Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
Based on his track record, when Dean Cain was in *that* episode of A Different World, he clearly wasn’t acting.
August 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Based on his track record, when Dean Cain was in *that* episode of A Different World, he clearly wasn’t acting.
“Judged by this, it is absurd to call the practical religion of this nation Christian. We are not humble, we are impudently proud; we are not merciful, we are unmerciful toward friend and foe. . . .”
—W. E. B. Du Bois, "Religion in the South,” 1907
—W. E. B. Du Bois, "Religion in the South,” 1907
August 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM
“Judged by this, it is absurd to call the practical religion of this nation Christian. We are not humble, we are impudently proud; we are not merciful, we are unmerciful toward friend and foe. . . .”
—W. E. B. Du Bois, "Religion in the South,” 1907
—W. E. B. Du Bois, "Religion in the South,” 1907
“The real meaning and history of Manifest Destiny, for example, is nothing less than calculated and deliberate genocide. But American folklore, which has seduced American history into a radiant stupor, transforms this slaughter into an heroic legend.”
—James Baldwin, Evidence of Things Not Seen
—James Baldwin, Evidence of Things Not Seen
August 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“The real meaning and history of Manifest Destiny, for example, is nothing less than calculated and deliberate genocide. But American folklore, which has seduced American history into a radiant stupor, transforms this slaughter into an heroic legend.”
—James Baldwin, Evidence of Things Not Seen
—James Baldwin, Evidence of Things Not Seen
"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble."
—John Lewis
—John Lewis
July 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble."
—John Lewis
—John Lewis
“These men did more than influence churches; they impacted policy, radicalized parents, traumatized children, and protected predators by framing obedience as virtue and silence as faith.“
—Stephanie Warren
h/t R. L. Stollar
Dismantling the Evangelical Legacy: open.substack.com/pub/thestron...
—Stephanie Warren
h/t R. L. Stollar
Dismantling the Evangelical Legacy: open.substack.com/pub/thestron...
July 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
“These men did more than influence churches; they impacted policy, radicalized parents, traumatized children, and protected predators by framing obedience as virtue and silence as faith.“
—Stephanie Warren
h/t R. L. Stollar
Dismantling the Evangelical Legacy: open.substack.com/pub/thestron...
—Stephanie Warren
h/t R. L. Stollar
Dismantling the Evangelical Legacy: open.substack.com/pub/thestron...
Drake is trying to start a Hip Hop Diaspora War. It must noted that The Boy has dual citizenship, so when he named America and said “my country” instead of naming Canada—it’s all on brand.
This is culturally inappropriate.
#LetGodSortEmOut
This is culturally inappropriate.
#LetGodSortEmOut
July 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Drake is trying to start a Hip Hop Diaspora War. It must noted that The Boy has dual citizenship, so when he named America and said “my country” instead of naming Canada—it’s all on brand.
This is culturally inappropriate.
#LetGodSortEmOut
This is culturally inappropriate.
#LetGodSortEmOut
Someone please call former NY governor, David Patterson, and the members of the NY Democratic Party who continue to unjustly attack Zohran Mamdani, while they continue to wildly support a candidate like Mayor Eric Adams.
FULL STORY: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/n...
FULL STORY: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/n...
July 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Someone please call former NY governor, David Patterson, and the members of the NY Democratic Party who continue to unjustly attack Zohran Mamdani, while they continue to wildly support a candidate like Mayor Eric Adams.
FULL STORY: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/n...
FULL STORY: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/n...
“If the American Church champions the deprivation of the least of these, then it is a curse to mankind. If the American Church is not only indifferent to the least of these, but ‘actually takes sides with the oppressors,’ . . . Woe to the American Church!”
—> open.substack.com/pub/markansl...
—> open.substack.com/pub/markansl...
July 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
“If the American Church champions the deprivation of the least of these, then it is a curse to mankind. If the American Church is not only indifferent to the least of these, but ‘actually takes sides with the oppressors,’ . . . Woe to the American Church!”
—> open.substack.com/pub/markansl...
—> open.substack.com/pub/markansl...
“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.”
—Clarence Darrow
—Clarence Darrow
July 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.”
—Clarence Darrow
—Clarence Darrow
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
—Martin Luther King Jr.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
July 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
—Martin Luther King Jr.
—Martin Luther King Jr.