God’s Politics: A Blog by Jim Wallis & Friends.
Here is a great blog addressing some of the issues I have about the way some proponents of new church movements approach what they do in relation to people of color. The perspective and experience of people of color is most often ignored, dismissed or trivialized. Race [...]
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In one Thursday afternoon in August after a drive from Grand Rapids to Chicago I boarded a bus with about 40 other people and started out on my first Sankofa journey. Sankofa (looking back to move forward) is a bus tour of several civil rights [...]
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NPR had a great segment yesterday on the hidden (racial) prejudices we all carry. The author of an article called the bigot in my brain and the developer of a test of hidden prejudices suggested that all of us carry a lifetime worth of messages that shape our prejudices towards others. We are not always conscious [...]
OK so it is clear that i wasn’t very clear in my thoughts in this post damned if you do damned if you don’t. This is not about being politically for Obama or Clinton. It is my observation of how differently we relate to politicians based on their race or gender.
It has been my observation that [...]
First he was criticized for not being a fighter now Obama is being criticized because his was/is a political fighter. Check out his article on CNN.
Obama played hardball in first Chicago campaign – CNN.com
The double standard strains credibility even as the nation’s “first black president” talks about his candidate wife not getting a fair shake [...]
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OK everywhere you look it seems there are nooses being hung. First Jena then a long Island police station, then the door of a Columbia university professor. Note that two of these are in the north where it is suggested racism is long gone. SO why aren’t more Christians talking it about. I don’t know [...]
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I have watched, read and listened to all the talk about Michael Richards racial meltdown last week. Now I’m ready to wade into the hype. I have to say of the bat, I was never a fan of Seinfield; (it always amazed me that as with Friends all these people could be so active in NYC and [...]
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