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Citizens Disunited

Awhile back, in the Dred Scott decision, SCOTUS denied rights of citizenship to people of color "as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race..." So, we need not dig too deeply to rediscover where straight white male supremacists and systemic racist allies might find our strongest most toxic heritage language beliefs lack of inclusive discernment, absence of multicultural intelligence united citizens experience, values of all people for all creatures here below. Anyway, with this precedent in place, we might similarly nuance the Citizens United language, giving corporations the rights of citizenship without the responsibilities of healthy stewardship, authority to buy media speech and heavily invest in purchasing political competitions; This right more transparently unveiled as the authority of a superordinate and superior class of capital-acquiring beings, masters of organic Earth's climate degeneration who have subjugated the unstraight unwhite unmale suffering from non-elite lack of multiculturally appreciated face, too slow race, These assumptions of who is SWM better than whom, rooted in outworn and unhistorical and supremacist win/lose environmental theories, blossom as further toxic prejudice against Earth's primordial health rights and humane responsibilities to repair damages, restore peace of natural/spiritual left/right west/east north/south cultural hemispheres advocating resonant geopolitical balance. How would such corporate persons be baptized? And confirmed to be raised in ways and means of a loving Creator God rather than a competitive and jealously greedy Mammon?

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