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FROM WHITE GUILT TO WHITE RESPONSIBILITY

7/7/2016

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In the face of such egregious violence against people of color, it is easy for well-meaning members of the dominant culture to feel paralyzed and helpless.  This article is form a year ago, but is still a very good piece describing how it is the the responsibility of those who benefit from the most privilege to also take responsibility for changing broken and unjust systems that dehumanize and terrorize God's children who do not enjoy the same privilege.

What's in your backpack?

​www.ministrymatters.com/all/entry/6153/from-white-guilt-to-white-responsibility
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Deacon Donald M. Clark link
10/3/2016 03:46:06 pm

Probably, the most painful hurt that any successful American still feel even though our country is rapidly slipping from being the number # 1 superpower in not only military defense, but also in moral perogatives, inside the world of racial denigration and class intolerance. Mercifully, why can't we all love & respect each other since Christianity teaches that we're all God's children? Something happens, like the Civil Rights Movements, and we all get challenged on who to love or who to hate, when we all as citizens should be kind to the fullest maximum of everyone inside of the United States of America. Pathetically, after 50 years of war, on poverty and war on drug policies in the Inner Cities of Urban America nothing has really changed! And how can things get better regardless of a new Democrat or Republican President in the White House. Strategically, what has to happen is that genuine FBOs (Faith-Based Organizations) born from outside the formal religious organizations that exist in states and the nation have to be transformed. We have to stop looking at transformation of secular charitable organizations and give more of our attention to those grassroots community based organizations that are often mistaken as church ministries. Should the two come together as a synthesis?
Yes, I believe they must. They represent the only opportunity for a synergy coming forth as Jesus in the 21st Century. And the guilt should be mutually shared and not like loaded up on one side as the title of the article suggests. History teaches that other African nations or tribes would conquer an opposing force and then make slaves of them. This was a black or African thing! And then they
would bond them together (men & women) and march towards the coast where more than often Europeans with ships would meet and exchange goods & commodities for chattel (human slaves). Only the church with it's true & forgiving version, of what has happened to the Black Man in America, and even before then can try & lead the cathartic dialogue about Racial Reconciliation.

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Deacon Donald M. Clark link
10/3/2016 03:46:14 pm

Probably, the most painful hurt that any successful American still feel even though our country is rapidly slipping from being the number # 1 superpower in not only military defense, but also in moral perogatives, inside the world of racial denigration and class intolerance. Mercifully, why can't we all love & respect each other since Christianity teaches that we're all God's children? Something happens, like the Civil Rights Movements, and we all get challenged on who to love or who to hate, when we all as citizens should be kind to the fullest maximum of everyone inside of the United States of America. Pathetically, after 50 years of war, on poverty and war on drug policies in the Inner Cities of Urban America nothing has really changed! And how can things get better regardless of a new Democrat or Republican President in the White House. Strategically, what has to happen is that genuine FBOs (Faith-Based Organizations) born from outside the formal religious organizations that exist in states and the nation have to be transformed. We have to stop looking at transformation of secular charitable organizations and give more of our attention to those grassroots community based organizations that are often mistaken as church ministries. Should the two come together as a synthesis?
Yes, I believe they must. They represent the only opportunity for a synergy coming forth as Jesus in the 21st Century. And the guilt should be mutually shared and not like loaded up on one side as the title of the article suggests. History teaches that other African nations or tribes would conquer an opposing force and then make slaves of them. This was a black or African thing! And then they
would bond them together (men & women) and march towards the coast where more than often Europeans with ships would meet and exchange goods & commodities for chattel (human slaves). Only the church with it's true & forgiving version, of what has happened to the Black Man in America, and even before then can try & lead the cathartic dialogue about Racial Reconciliation.

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Deacon Donald M. Clark link
10/3/2016 03:46:33 pm

Probably, the most painful hurt that any successful American still feel even though our country is rapidly slipping from being the number # 1 superpower in not only military defense, but also in moral perogatives, inside the world of racial denigration and class intolerance. Mercifully, why can't we all love & respect each other since Christianity teaches that we're all God's children? Something happens, like the Civil Rights Movements, and we all get challenged on who to love or who to hate, when we all as citizens should be kind to the fullest maximum of everyone inside of the United States of America. Pathetically, after 50 years of war, on poverty and war on drug policies in the Inner Cities of Urban America nothing has really changed! And how can things get better regardless of a new Democrat or Republican President in the White House. Strategically, what has to happen is that genuine FBOs (Faith-Based Organizations) born from outside the formal religious organizations that exist in states and the nation have to be transformed. We have to stop looking at transformation of secular charitable organizations and give more of our attention to those grassroots community based organizations that are often mistaken as church ministries. Should the two come together as a synthesis?
Yes, I believe they must. They represent the only opportunity for a synergy coming forth as Jesus in the 21st Century. And the guilt should be mutually shared and not like loaded up on one side as the title of the article suggests. History teaches that other African nations or tribes would conquer an opposing force and then make slaves of them. This was a black or African thing! And then they
would bond them together (men & women) and march towards the coast where more than often Europeans with ships would meet and exchange goods & commodities for chattel (human slaves). Only the church with it's true & forgiving version, of what has happened to the Black Man in America, and even before then can try & lead the cathartic dialogue about Racial Reconciliation.

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Deacon Donald M. Clark link
10/3/2016 03:47:04 pm

Probably, the most painful hurt that any successful American still feel even though our country is rapidly slipping from being the number # 1 superpower in not only military defense, but also in moral perogatives, inside the world of racial denigration and class intolerance. Mercifully, why can't we all love & respect each other since Christianity teaches that we're all God's children? Something happens, like the Civil Rights Movements, and we all get challenged on who to love or who to hate, when we all as citizens should be kind to the fullest maximum of everyone inside of the United States of America. Pathetically, after 50 years of war, on poverty and war on drug policies in the Inner Cities of Urban America nothing has really changed! And how can things get better regardless of a new Democrat or Republican President in the White House. Strategically, what has to happen is that genuine FBOs (Faith-Based Organizations) born from outside the formal religious organizations that exist in states and the nation have to be transformed. We have to stop looking at transformation of secular charitable organizations and give more of our attention to those grassroots community based organizations that are often mistaken as church ministries. Should the two come together as a synthesis?
Yes, I believe they must. They represent the only opportunity for a synergy coming forth as Jesus in the 21st Century. And the guilt should be mutually shared and not like loaded up on one side as the title of the article suggests. History teaches that other African nations or tribes would conquer an opposing force and then make slaves of them. This was a black or African thing! And then they
would bond them together (men & women) and march towards the coast where more than often Europeans with ships would meet and exchange goods & commodities for chattel (human slaves). Only the church with it's true & forgiving version, of what has happened to the Black Man in America, and even before then can try & lead the cathartic dialogue about Racial Reconciliation.

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