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==Important and Overlooked Stories on the Web== | ==Important and Overlooked Stories on the Web== | ||
[https://player.captivate.fm/episode/6dda69e2-687e-4b41-8176-0f658205e4c1 Democracy around the World] | |||
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|'''Jimmy Carter embodies the 'road not taken' by many White evangelical Christians''' | |'''Jimmy Carter embodies the 'road not taken' by many White evangelical Christians''' | ||
[[File:230302142857-jimmy-carter-ebenezer-baptist-file-011479-super-169.jpg|thumb|center|[https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/05/us/jimmy-carter-evangelicals-blake-cec/index.html | [[File:230302142857-jimmy-carter-ebenezer-baptist-file-011479-super-169.jpg|thumb|center|[https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/05/us/jimmy-carter-evangelicals-blake-cec/index.html by John Blake 3/05/23 CNN]]] | ||
Long before he was called a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, a humanitarian and the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter was known as something else: a "Goddamn n***er lover." | Long before he was called a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, a humanitarian and the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter was known as something else: a "Goddamn n***er lover." | ||
That's the racial slur a White classmate of Carter's at the US Naval Academy assigned to him right after World War II when the future president befriended the academy's only Black midshipman. | That's the racial slur a White classmate of Carter's at the US Naval Academy assigned to him right after World War II when the future president befriended the academy's only Black midshipman. | ||