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Guest Profile: Reverend Vivian Nixon Reverend Vivian D. Nixon is Executive Director of College & Community Fellowship (CCF) a New York City organization that helps women and families most harmed by mass criminalization gain equitable access to opportunity and human rights. Reverend Nixon identifies herself as a joyfully Black woman whose release from correctional oversight gave rise to a search for true liberation and guided her academic and career choices. Her work at CCF, and beyond, advances justice through economic and social equity, anti-racism, civic engagement, and artistic expression. Instructed and ordained in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Reverend Nixon has an MFA from Columbia School of the Arts, and currently teaches at Bennington College’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action. Recognized with multiple honors, she is a recipient of the John Jay Medal for Justice and Fellowships with programs at the Aspen Institute, Open Society Foundations, ....
So i think it s time for us to begin to organize in ourselves organize ourselves in such a way where we are that same brigade of hope. not a brigade of hate that we saw in virginia yesterday. you know, reverend, i ve got to say, reverend nixon, as we look at this, and we are talking about dealing not only with blacks and jews and catholics and muslims and and other faiths, but we must also, unlike many years ago, make sure women, make sure the lgbtq community and clergy involved. but i must say that disappointment would be a mild way of saying to how the president responded. the president seemed to try to say that there was bigotry and hate and all, on all sides. rather than directly deal with ....
So as reverend nixon mentioned earlier, we have to be very aware that this cultivation of fear is our opponents intention. and if we are aware of our opponents intention, we re going to be better positioned to fend them off. and to divert other people from joining those groups. the white supremacist ideology, like all violent extremist ideologies, is based in a sense of oppression. and is as ridiculous as it may sound, especially to people like yourself and others who have been involved in civil rights struggles for so long, the idea of white people being oppressed is the bread and butter of the alt-right. and if we allow them to speak for all white people, and if we, as a society, especially if we as progressives allow ourselves to see the alt-right in all white people, then their objective is accomplished, and that fear and hostility is cultivated. now, let me ask you, what ....