New Year, new me. Nah. I'm fine just the way I am. Doing the things I love. Like enjoying

a latte on the bus with some music or on a walk with a friend. My only resolution is

to enjoy more of what I love. Like switching up my usual with oat, soy, almond or coconut.

All delicious non-dairy alternatives available at Starbucks. For no extra charge. While Stocks

last subject to availability.

Hey guys, welcome to Relayed Ball Happy Monday. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.

Today we are going to talk about a tough subject and uncomfortable subject. That is the charge

of white supremacy as the reason for the recent reported surge in anti-Asian hate crimes.

We're going to look specifically at the mass shooting that occurred in Atlanta last week.

Where a white man shot nine people, seven of them were Asian women. The races are important

because that's part of the conversation that we're having. That's part of why we're talking about

this. We're going to talk about some of the accusations being made about his motives, the assumptions

that are rising about the cause of this kind of terrible crime. We're first going to remember

the victims. We're going to remind ourselves why we care when things like this happen, why

we cannot get swept up an emotional, performative activism on Instagram, media narratives,

rather than remembering what it means as Christians in particular to care about the loss of life.

We're then going to talk about the Atlanta incident, what happened? The suspect has stated

motivations, the reaction to these stated motivations, the immediate analysis from politicians,

from journalists, activists, and pastors about why they think he did this, the accusations of

white supremacy, the attempt to make anyone who criticized his China critical race theory culpable

in this, not just for this crime, by the way, but for all recent crimes against Asian Americans,

and why these kinds of accusations just do not match up with reality. We'll also talk about the

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