Word: reade
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...years we've had Christians reading the word of God. But what these people have to do, and what hip-hop strives to do, is to eliminate the distance. You can't read the word of God, you can't follow it, you have to be it...In the past, it was enough to just identify with hip-hop culture, you could say, `Yeah, I'm down with hip-hop.' If we do that now, if we don't eliminate that distance, hip-hop is lost. You have to be hip-hop, you have to take that responsibility and recognize...
...Leroy told me I could read hundreds of books and write a dozen, but to be a true scholar I'd have to be a human being and that, he emphasized, is the hard part," Akyeampong said...
Tercentenary Theater has echoed with the voices of students performing memorial readings three times in just the past month. The names of Holocaust victims were read to remind students of the atrocity and to illustrate that even when named steadily from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., only a mere fraction of the victims could be memorialized. Earth Day followed soon afterwards, and lists of endangered species were repeated into a microphone. And last week's Take Back the Night event sponsored another public reading to memorialize the victims of domestic violence...
Also distasteful was the juxtaposition of the Holocaust memorial readings and Earth Day's endangered species readings. True, both were intended to be grave reminders of innocent victims. But when the names of various types of winged mammals were read with the same earnestness as the names of Holocaust victims, it did a disservice to both causes. The extinction of animals is, of course, a horrible occurrence in itself but its gravity is simply not comparable to the organized malicious slaughter of a particular ethnic group. All efforts should be made to avoid evoking that comparison in people's minds...
Back in the days before the Internet, I probably never could have read this: "American propaganda machinery began a new harangue of demonization of Serbs and Yugoslavia, spreading new lies which persistently attempts to support with alleged statements of refugees, Kosovo Albanians arriving in Albania, the majority of whom have family members in the terrorist organization...