{"id":4376,"date":"2021-06-09T03:01:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T03:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/?page_id=4376"},"modified":"2021-06-19T16:23:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T16:23:12","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/td><td><strong><div class=\"atw-show-posts-schema\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Blog\" itemscope > <!-- begin Blog -->\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div><div class=\"atw-show-posts\">\n<article id=\"post-4265\" class=\"content-default post-area post-fi-content-top post-author-id-1 font-inherit post-4265 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-frontpage category-immigration category-race-relations\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemscope itemprop=\"blogPost\"><!-- POST: standard -->\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2  class=\"post-title entry-title font-inherit\" itemprop=\"headline name\">\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/24\/once-a-republican\/\" title=\"Permalink to Once A Republican, Always A&#8230;?  Apparently Not!\" rel=\"bookmark\">Once A Republican, Always A&#8230;?  Apparently Not!<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-meta \">\n<meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2018-07-24T17:25:53+00:00\"\/>\n<meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2021-06-08T21:43:42+00:00\"\/>\n<span style=\"display:none\" itemscope itemprop=\"publisher\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\"><span itemprop=\"name\">YouDidntAsk.org<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"logo\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/blog.png\" \/><\/span>\n<span class=\"meta-info-wrap post-hide-author post-hide-categories entry-meta-gicons  font-inherit\">\n<span class=\"sep posted-on\">Posted on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/24\/once-a-republican\/\" title=\"5:25 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2018-07-24T17:25:53+00:00\">July 24, 2018<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> <span class=\"sep\"> by <\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/author\/rlarrye\/\" title=\"View all posts by rlarrye\" rel=\"author\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" itemscope itemprop=\"author\"><span itemprop=\"name\">rlarrye<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><time class=\"updated\" datetime=\"2021-06-08T21:43:42+00:00\">June 8, 2021<\/time>\n<\/span><!-- .entry-meta-icons --><\/div><!-- \/entry-meta -->\n<\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\n    <div class=\"entry-summary clearfix\">\n\n<a class=\"wvrx-fi-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/24\/once-a-republican\/\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" itemprop=\"url\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/former-repub-1-150x150.png\" class=\"featured-image fi-post_excerpt-content-top fi-content-top hide-none fi-alignleft wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/a>\n\n<p>About ten years ago I wrote:<\/p>\n<p>I find that I am bracing for a very ugly debate which will only serve to associate all of my Hispanic friends with the evils of drug trade from the south of our federal border.<\/p>\n<p>I can just imagine how racism will attempt to cloak itself in the \u201cstars and stripes\u201d, as it seeks some sort of national justification.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/24\/once-a-republican\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-summary -->\n\n\t\t<footer class=\"entry-utility\"><!-- bottom meta -->\n\t\t<\/footer><!-- #entry-utility -->\n<div class=\"clear-post-end\" style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<link itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/24\/once-a-republican\/\" \/><\/article><!-- \/#post-4265 -->\n\n<div style='clear:both;'><\/div>\n\n<article id=\"post-4232\" class=\"content-default post-area post-fi-content-top post-author-id-1 font-inherit post-4232 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-christian-perspective category-frontpage category-immigration category-race-relations\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemscope itemprop=\"blogPost\"><!-- POST: standard -->\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2  class=\"post-title entry-title font-inherit\" itemprop=\"headline name\">\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/17\/right-to-what\/\" title=\"Permalink to Right to  What ?\" rel=\"bookmark\">Right to  What ?<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-meta \">\n<meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2018-07-17T20:08:52+00:00\"\/>\n<meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2018-07-17T20:08:52+00:00\"\/>\n<span style=\"display:none\" itemscope itemprop=\"publisher\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\"><span itemprop=\"name\">YouDidntAsk.org<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"logo\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/blog.png\" \/><\/span>\n<span class=\"meta-info-wrap post-hide-author post-hide-categories entry-meta-gicons  font-inherit\">\n<span class=\"sep posted-on\">Posted on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/17\/right-to-what\/\" title=\"8:08 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2018-07-17T20:08:52+00:00\">July 17, 2018<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> <span class=\"sep\"> by <\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/author\/rlarrye\/\" title=\"View all posts by rlarrye\" rel=\"author\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" itemscope itemprop=\"author\"><span itemprop=\"name\">rlarrye<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><time class=\"published updated\" datetime=\"2018-07-17T20:08:52+00:00\">July 17, 2018<\/time>\n<\/span><!-- .entry-meta-icons --><\/div><!-- \/entry-meta -->\n<\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\n    <div class=\"entry-summary clearfix\">\n\n<a class=\"wvrx-fi-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/17\/right-to-what\/\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" itemprop=\"url\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/refugee-child-mom-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"featured-image fi-post_excerpt-content-top fi-content-top hide-none fi-alignleft wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/refugee-child-mom-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/refugee-child-mom-1-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/span><\/a>\n<p>The expression &#8220;right to life&#8221; in abortion discussions is very potent.\u00a0 Although popularized by Pope Pius XII in 1951, the phrase currently brings to mind the modern ultra-sound image of the unborn.\u00a0 Pro-Life advocates would view the premature removal of <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/17\/right-to-what\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/17\/right-to-what\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-summary -->\n\n\t\t<footer class=\"entry-utility\"><!-- bottom meta -->\n\t\t<\/footer><!-- #entry-utility -->\n<div class=\"clear-post-end\" style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<link itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/17\/right-to-what\/\" \/><\/article><!-- \/#post-4232 -->\n\n<div style='clear:both;'><\/div>\n\n<article id=\"post-4197\" class=\"content-default post-area post-fi-content-top post-author-id-1 font-inherit post-4197 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-christian-perspective category-frontpage category-race-relations\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemscope itemprop=\"blogPost\"><!-- POST: standard -->\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2  class=\"post-title entry-title font-inherit\" itemprop=\"headline name\">\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/18\/thinking-a-little-less-white\/\" title=\"Permalink to Thinking a Little \u201cLess White\u201d\" rel=\"bookmark\">Thinking a Little \u201cLess White\u201d<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-meta \">\n<meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2017-08-18T10:58:46+00:00\"\/>\n<meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2017-08-18T10:58:46+00:00\"\/>\n<span style=\"display:none\" itemscope itemprop=\"publisher\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\"><span itemprop=\"name\">YouDidntAsk.org<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"logo\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/blog.png\" \/><\/span>\n<span class=\"meta-info-wrap post-hide-author post-hide-categories entry-meta-gicons  font-inherit\">\n<span class=\"sep posted-on\">Posted on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/18\/thinking-a-little-less-white\/\" title=\"10:58 am\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2017-08-18T10:58:46+00:00\">August 18, 2017<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> <span class=\"sep\"> by <\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/author\/rlarrye\/\" title=\"View all posts by rlarrye\" rel=\"author\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" itemscope itemprop=\"author\"><span itemprop=\"name\">rlarrye<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><time class=\"published updated\" datetime=\"2017-08-18T10:58:46+00:00\">August 18, 2017<\/time>\n<\/span><!-- .entry-meta-icons --><\/div><!-- \/entry-meta -->\n<\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\n    <div class=\"entry-summary clearfix\">\n\n<a class=\"wvrx-fi-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/18\/thinking-a-little-less-white\/\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" itemprop=\"url\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/larry-highschool-e1503072148896-1-150x150.png\" class=\"featured-image fi-post_excerpt-content-top fi-content-top hide-none fi-alignleft wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/a>\n<p>From age 14-21 Larry worked at his uncle&#8217;s grocery store which served Charlotte&#8217;s first housing project. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Larry&#8217;s experiences there allowed him to transcend the segregation of the city, and step into a culture not his own.<\/p>\n<p>To this day, these memories are fond and impactful.\u00a0<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/18\/thinking-a-little-less-white\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-summary -->\n\n\t\t<footer class=\"entry-utility\"><!-- bottom meta -->\n\t\t<\/footer><!-- #entry-utility -->\n<div class=\"clear-post-end\" style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<link itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/18\/thinking-a-little-less-white\/\" \/><\/article><!-- \/#post-4197 -->\n\n<div style='clear:both;'><\/div>\n\n<article id=\"post-4160\" class=\"content-default post-area post-fi-content-top post-author-id-1 font-inherit post-4160 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-christian-perspective category-frontpage\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemscope itemprop=\"blogPost\"><!-- POST: standard -->\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2  class=\"post-title entry-title font-inherit\" itemprop=\"headline name\">\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/18\/fakenews-and-christian-evangelicals\/\" title=\"Permalink to Fake News and Christian Evangelicals\" rel=\"bookmark\">Fake News and Christian Evangelicals<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-meta \">\n<meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2017-07-18T07:52:50+00:00\"\/>\n<meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2017-07-18T07:52:50+00:00\"\/>\n<span style=\"display:none\" itemscope itemprop=\"publisher\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\"><span itemprop=\"name\">YouDidntAsk.org<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"logo\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/blog.png\" \/><\/span>\n<span class=\"meta-info-wrap post-hide-author post-hide-categories entry-meta-gicons  font-inherit\">\n<span class=\"sep posted-on\">Posted on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/18\/fakenews-and-christian-evangelicals\/\" title=\"7:52 am\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2017-07-18T07:52:50+00:00\">July 18, 2017<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> <span class=\"sep\"> by <\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/author\/rlarrye\/\" title=\"View all posts by rlarrye\" rel=\"author\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" itemscope itemprop=\"author\"><span itemprop=\"name\">rlarrye<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><time class=\"published updated\" datetime=\"2017-07-18T07:52:50+00:00\">July 18, 2017<\/time>\n<\/span><!-- .entry-meta-icons --><\/div><!-- \/entry-meta -->\n<\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\n    <div class=\"entry-summary clearfix\">\n\n<a class=\"wvrx-fi-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/18\/fakenews-and-christian-evangelicals\/\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"142\" height=\"150\" itemprop=\"url\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/younglarry-1-142x150.png\" class=\"featured-image fi-post_excerpt-content-top fi-content-top hide-none fi-alignleft wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/a>\n<p>As a young minister in the 1970&#8217;s, Larry became a witness to fake news gone viral, twenty years before the modern internet. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In their desire to defend religious freedom of speech, many preachers and pastors were &#8220;rushing to print&#8221; with false claims which continue until the present.<\/p>\n<p><i>The original article was clearly bogus, unattributed, and embarrassing. This should have served as an instructive moment for the evangelical community. Apparently, it did not.<\/i><\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/18\/fakenews-and-christian-evangelicals\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-summary -->\n\n\t\t<footer class=\"entry-utility\"><!-- bottom meta -->\n\t\t<\/footer><!-- #entry-utility -->\n<div class=\"clear-post-end\" style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<link itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/18\/fakenews-and-christian-evangelicals\/\" \/><\/article><!-- \/#post-4160 -->\n\n<div style='clear:both;'><\/div>\n\n<article id=\"post-4148\" class=\"content-default post-area post-author-id-1 font-inherit post-4148 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-christian-perspective category-frontpage category-race-relations\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemscope itemprop=\"blogPost\"><!-- POST: standard -->\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2  class=\"post-title entry-title font-inherit\" itemprop=\"headline name\">\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/29\/in-search-of-hope\/\" title=\"Permalink to In Search of Hope\" rel=\"bookmark\">In Search of Hope<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-meta \">\n<meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2017-05-29T19:56:48+00:00\"\/>\n<meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2017-05-29T19:56:48+00:00\"\/>\n<span style=\"display:none\" itemscope itemprop=\"publisher\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\"><span itemprop=\"name\">YouDidntAsk.org<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"logo\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/blog.png\" \/><\/span>\n<span class=\"meta-info-wrap post-hide-author post-hide-categories entry-meta-gicons  font-inherit\">\n<span class=\"sep posted-on\">Posted on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/29\/in-search-of-hope\/\" title=\"7:56 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2017-05-29T19:56:48+00:00\">May 29, 2017<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> <span class=\"sep\"> by <\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/author\/rlarrye\/\" title=\"View all posts by rlarrye\" rel=\"author\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" itemscope itemprop=\"author\"><span itemprop=\"name\">rlarrye<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><time class=\"published updated\" datetime=\"2017-05-29T19:56:48+00:00\">May 29, 2017<\/time>\n<\/span><!-- .entry-meta-icons --><\/div><!-- \/entry-meta -->\n<\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\n    <div class=\"entry-summary clearfix\">\n<p>As Deacon of Multicultural Ministry in a well-established Charlotte church, I take my mission very seriously. Yet as a Christian traumatized by the overt racism in my land, I often don\u2019t know where to begin. One year ago I could <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/29\/in-search-of-hope\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/29\/in-search-of-hope\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-summary -->\n\n\t\t<footer class=\"entry-utility\"><!-- bottom meta -->\n\t\t<\/footer><!-- #entry-utility -->\n<div class=\"clear-post-end\" style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<link itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/29\/in-search-of-hope\/\" \/><\/article><!-- \/#post-4148 -->\n\n<div style='clear:both;'><\/div>\n\n<article id=\"post-4133\" class=\"content-default post-area post-fi-content-top post-author-id-1 font-inherit post-4133 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-christian-perspective category-frontpage category-immigration\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemscope itemprop=\"blogPost\"><!-- POST: standard -->\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2  class=\"post-title entry-title font-inherit\" itemprop=\"headline name\">\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/dream-president-for-evangelicals\/\" title=\"Permalink to Dream President For Evangelicals?\" rel=\"bookmark\">Dream President For Evangelicals?<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-meta \">\n<meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2017-05-11T17:31:06+00:00\"\/>\n<meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2017-05-11T17:31:06+00:00\"\/>\n<span style=\"display:none\" itemscope itemprop=\"publisher\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\"><span itemprop=\"name\">YouDidntAsk.org<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"logo\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/blog.png\" \/><\/span>\n<span class=\"meta-info-wrap post-hide-author post-hide-categories entry-meta-gicons  font-inherit\">\n<span class=\"sep posted-on\">Posted on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/dream-president-for-evangelicals\/\" title=\"5:31 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2017-05-11T17:31:06+00:00\">May 11, 2017<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> <span class=\"sep\"> by <\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/author\/rlarrye\/\" title=\"View all posts by rlarrye\" rel=\"author\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" itemscope itemprop=\"author\"><span itemprop=\"name\">rlarrye<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><time class=\"published updated\" datetime=\"2017-05-11T17:31:06+00:00\">May 11, 2017<\/time>\n<\/span><!-- .entry-meta-icons --><\/div><!-- \/entry-meta -->\n<\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\n    <div class=\"entry-summary clearfix\">\n\n<a class=\"wvrx-fi-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/dream-president-for-evangelicals\/\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" itemprop=\"url\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ivan2-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"featured-image fi-post_excerpt-content-top fi-content-top hide-none fi-alignleft wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/a>\n<p>When President Donald Trump chose Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA to deliver a graduation speech, the school\u2019s leaders were elated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to University\u00a0President Jerry Falwell, Jr., President Trump is\u00a0a \u201cdream president\u201d for evangelicals.<\/p>\n<p>Not all of the 65,000 &#8220;distance learners&#8221; would agree, including Ivan Herr\u00e1n, a church deacon and facilitator for incoming community college students.\u00a0Ivan has not found the Trumpian message or agenda particularly helpful to the Hispanic community.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to working full-time, Ivan has earned a Biblical studies and counseling degree from Liberty, and will attend the 2017 graduation. \u00a0The irony of having President Trump as his graduation speaker has not gone unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/dream-president-for-evangelicals\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-summary -->\n\n\t\t<footer class=\"entry-utility\"><!-- bottom meta -->\n\t\t<\/footer><!-- #entry-utility -->\n<div class=\"clear-post-end\" style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<link itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/dream-president-for-evangelicals\/\" \/><\/article><!-- \/#post-4133 -->\n\n<div style='clear:both;'><\/div>\n\n<article id=\"post-4112\" class=\"content-default post-area post-fi-content-top post-author-id-1 font-inherit post-4112 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-frontpage\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemscope itemprop=\"blogPost\"><!-- POST: standard -->\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2  class=\"post-title entry-title font-inherit\" itemprop=\"headline name\">\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/03\/no-fake-jacksonian-history-for-tom-cole\/\" title=\"Permalink to No Fake Jacksonian History for Tom Cole!\" rel=\"bookmark\">No Fake Jacksonian History for Tom Cole!<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-meta \">\n<meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2017-05-03T12:48:09+00:00\"\/>\n<meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2017-05-03T12:48:09+00:00\"\/>\n<span style=\"display:none\" itemscope itemprop=\"publisher\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\"><span itemprop=\"name\">YouDidntAsk.org<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"logo\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/blog.png\" \/><\/span>\n<span class=\"meta-info-wrap post-hide-author post-hide-categories entry-meta-gicons  font-inherit\">\n<span class=\"sep posted-on\">Posted on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/03\/no-fake-jacksonian-history-for-tom-cole\/\" title=\"12:48 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2017-05-03T12:48:09+00:00\">May 3, 2017<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> <span class=\"sep\"> by <\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/author\/rlarrye\/\" title=\"View all posts by rlarrye\" rel=\"author\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" itemscope itemprop=\"author\"><span itemprop=\"name\">rlarrye<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><time class=\"published updated\" datetime=\"2017-05-03T12:48:09+00:00\">May 3, 2017<\/time>\n<\/span><!-- .entry-meta-icons --><\/div><!-- \/entry-meta -->\n<\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\n    <div class=\"entry-summary clearfix\">\n\n<a class=\"wvrx-fi-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/03\/no-fake-jacksonian-history-for-tom-cole\/\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" itemprop=\"url\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/RepCole_2-e1493834545593-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"featured-image fi-post_excerpt-content-top fi-content-top hide-none fi-alignleft wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/a>\n<p>Republican Congressman Tom Cole is not impressed with President Trump\u2019s recent embrace of Andrew Jackson, whose portrait proudly graces the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>It was not the president&#8217;s recent fractured attempt at history that bothered Cole, <em>but the fact of Donald Trump\u2019s obsession with Andrew Jackson, period.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To President Trump the Jacksonian presidency was &#8220;a long time ago.&#8221; But to the &#8220;proud Chickasaw&#8221; and member of the U.S. House, Jackson&#8217;s Indian Removal Program\u00a0is a perpetually fresh\u00a0memory.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/03\/no-fake-jacksonian-history-for-tom-cole\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-summary -->\n\n\t\t<footer class=\"entry-utility\"><!-- bottom meta -->\n\t\t<\/footer><!-- #entry-utility -->\n<div class=\"clear-post-end\" style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<link itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/03\/no-fake-jacksonian-history-for-tom-cole\/\" \/><\/article><!-- \/#post-4112 -->\n\n<div style='clear:both;'><\/div>\n\n<article id=\"post-4099\" class=\"content-default post-area post-fi-content-top post-author-id-1 font-inherit post-4099 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-frontpage category-immigration\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemscope itemprop=\"blogPost\"><!-- POST: standard -->\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2  class=\"post-title entry-title font-inherit\" itemprop=\"headline name\">\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/18\/filth-and-context\/\" title=\"Permalink to Filth and Context\" rel=\"bookmark\">Filth and Context<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-meta \">\n<meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2017-04-18T17:45:45+00:00\"\/>\n<meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2017-04-18T17:45:45+00:00\"\/>\n<span style=\"display:none\" itemscope itemprop=\"publisher\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\"><span itemprop=\"name\">YouDidntAsk.org<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"logo\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/blog.png\" \/><\/span>\n<span class=\"meta-info-wrap post-hide-author post-hide-categories entry-meta-gicons  font-inherit\">\n<span class=\"sep posted-on\">Posted on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/18\/filth-and-context\/\" title=\"5:45 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2017-04-18T17:45:45+00:00\">April 18, 2017<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> <span class=\"sep\"> by <\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/author\/rlarrye\/\" title=\"View all posts by rlarrye\" rel=\"author\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" itemscope itemprop=\"author\"><span itemprop=\"name\">rlarrye<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><time class=\"published updated\" datetime=\"2017-04-18T17:45:45+00:00\">April 18, 2017<\/time>\n<\/span><!-- .entry-meta-icons --><\/div><!-- \/entry-meta -->\n<\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\n    <div class=\"entry-summary clearfix\">\n\n<a class=\"wvrx-fi-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/18\/filth-and-context\/\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" itemprop=\"url\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sessions-1-150x150.png\" class=\"featured-image fi-post_excerpt-content-top fi-content-top hide-none fi-alignleft wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/a>\n<p><em>Washington Post <\/em>contributor Daniel W. Drezner may have gotten well over his skis when tweeting that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had referred to immigrants entering from Mexico as \u201cfilth\u201d, in the prepared transcript for his border speech.<\/p>\n<p>Drezner later retracted his statement with an apology for not correctly noting the context in which the phrase was originally intended. Sessions, for whatever reason, did not give voice to what he had written, and dropped the \u201cfilth\u201d reference from his public proclamation.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/18\/filth-and-context\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-summary -->\n\n\t\t<footer class=\"entry-utility\"><!-- bottom meta -->\n\t\t<\/footer><!-- #entry-utility -->\n<div class=\"clear-post-end\" style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<link itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/18\/filth-and-context\/\" \/><\/article><!-- \/#post-4099 -->\n\n<div style='clear:both;'><\/div>\n\n<article id=\"post-4033\" class=\"content-default post-area post-fi-content-top post-author-id-1 font-inherit post-4033 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-frontpage category-immigration category-race-relations\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemscope itemprop=\"blogPost\"><!-- POST: standard -->\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2  class=\"post-title entry-title font-inherit\" itemprop=\"headline name\">\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/04\/the-racism-behind-the-immigration-issue\/\" title=\"Permalink to The Racism Behind the Immigration Issue\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Racism Behind the Immigration Issue<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-meta \">\n<meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2017-04-04T19:34:10+00:00\"\/>\n<meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2017-04-04T19:34:10+00:00\"\/>\n<span style=\"display:none\" itemscope itemprop=\"publisher\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\"><span itemprop=\"name\">YouDidntAsk.org<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"logo\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/blog.png\" \/><\/span>\n<span class=\"meta-info-wrap post-hide-author post-hide-categories entry-meta-gicons  font-inherit\">\n<span class=\"sep posted-on\">Posted on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/04\/the-racism-behind-the-immigration-issue\/\" title=\"7:34 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2017-04-04T19:34:10+00:00\">April 4, 2017<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> <span class=\"sep\"> by <\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/author\/rlarrye\/\" title=\"View all posts by rlarrye\" rel=\"author\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" itemscope itemprop=\"author\"><span itemprop=\"name\">rlarrye<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><time class=\"published updated\" datetime=\"2017-04-04T19:34:10+00:00\">April 4, 2017<\/time>\n<\/span><!-- .entry-meta-icons --><\/div><!-- \/entry-meta -->\n<\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\n    <div class=\"entry-summary clearfix\">\n\n<a class=\"wvrx-fi-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/04\/the-racism-behind-the-immigration-issue\/\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" itemprop=\"url\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/king19n-2-web-1-150x150.png\" class=\"featured-image fi-post_excerpt-content-top fi-content-top hide-none fi-alignleft wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/a>\n<p>For those of us who advocate discretion and compassion when dealing with families with an undocumented member, the emphasis on &#8220;enforcing the law&#8221; rings hollow. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In this &#8220;country of law&#8221;, there will always be a law to enforce. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet \u00a0historically our laws have often been a way to codify some form of white supremacist dogma, as evidenced by the immigration hardliners such as Representative Steve King.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/04\/the-racism-behind-the-immigration-issue\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-summary -->\n\n\t\t<footer class=\"entry-utility\"><!-- bottom meta -->\n\t\t<\/footer><!-- #entry-utility -->\n<div class=\"clear-post-end\" style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<link itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/04\/the-racism-behind-the-immigration-issue\/\" \/><\/article><!-- \/#post-4033 -->\n\n<div style='clear:both;'><\/div>\n\n<article id=\"post-54\" class=\"content-default post-area post-fi-content-top post-author-id-1 font-inherit post-54 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-frontpage category-immigration\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemscope itemprop=\"blogPost\"><!-- POST: standard -->\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2  class=\"post-title entry-title font-inherit\" itemprop=\"headline name\">\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/23\/does-us-citizenship-mean-anything\/\" title=\"Permalink to Does US Citizenship Mean\u00a0Anything?\u00a0\u00a0\" rel=\"bookmark\">Does US Citizenship Mean\u00a0Anything?\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-meta \">\n<meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2017-03-23T16:34:12+00:00\"\/>\n<meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2017-03-23T16:34:12+00:00\"\/>\n<span style=\"display:none\" itemscope itemprop=\"publisher\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\"><span itemprop=\"name\">YouDidntAsk.org<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"logo\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/blog.png\" \/><\/span>\n<span class=\"meta-info-wrap post-hide-author post-hide-categories entry-meta-gicons  font-inherit\">\n<span class=\"sep posted-on\">Posted on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/23\/does-us-citizenship-mean-anything\/\" title=\"4:34 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2017-03-23T16:34:12+00:00\">March 23, 2017<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> <span class=\"sep\"> by <\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/author\/rlarrye\/\" title=\"View all posts by rlarrye\" rel=\"author\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" itemscope itemprop=\"author\"><span itemprop=\"name\">rlarrye<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><time class=\"published updated\" datetime=\"2017-03-23T16:34:12+00:00\">March 23, 2017<\/time>\n<\/span><!-- .entry-meta-icons --><\/div><!-- \/entry-meta -->\n<\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\n    <div class=\"entry-summary clearfix\">\n\n<a class=\"wvrx-fi-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/23\/does-us-citizenship-mean-anything\/\"><span itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" itemprop=\"url\" src=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/latino-family-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"featured-image fi-post_excerpt-content-top fi-content-top hide-none fi-alignleft wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/a>\n<p>Originally published\u00a0<time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2009-09-03T16:34:12+00:00\"><a title=\"4:34 pm\" href=\"http:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/does-us-citizenship-mean-anything\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">September 3, 2009<\/a>, this post considers the loss of a generation of United States citizens.\u00a0<\/time><\/p>\n<p>But then, the question is, whether U.S. citizenship really matters. \u00a0Or to say it another way, <em>Do Brown Lives Matter?<\/em><\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/23\/does-us-citizenship-mean-anything\/\"><span 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