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Thx HighJive! “If a white church plainly and proudly pronounced its whiteness, Hannity, Carlson and company would be right. But if it was the Holy Trinity Polish Church on Chicago’s North Side, proclaiming its Polishness, who’d care?”
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Thx HighJive! “More executives overseeing brands that have gone stale are turning to the 36-year-old consultant and former music executive for help. [Steve] Stoute’s agency, Translation Consultation & Brand Imaging…”
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“Nowhere is the lack of cultural competence — and its unfortunate consequences — more apparent than in the widening rift between TUCC and the press. Incomplete reporting, uninformed blogging…provide a distorted picture of a widely-respected church, th
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“address the power structure in this country that allows babies of color who are adopted into white families…how immigrant families of color enter this country wanting a better life for themselves and their family…and are unable to get the jobs, acces
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Ken Burns’ WWII documentary completely overlooks Latinos. “after so much minimalization and abuse; to purposefully omit their presence on what is sure to be a much-respected historical film—this is utter disrespect.”
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Great discussion here. “As gay persons of color, is race an ever present factor in our interpersonal relationships, or is race something we project into the equation as a function of past victimization?”
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Hat tip to Ji In. “the surname I was given at birth—the one I’d had for the first eight years of my life and that tied me to my physical appearance, my nanita, my papi, his papá, and all my Mexican lineage—was stamped out. It was neutralized, made Ir
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Vandia wrote:
“If a white church plainly and proudly pronounced its whiteness, Hannity, Carlson and company would be right. But if it was the Holy Trinity Polish Church on Chicago’s North Side, proclaiming its Polishness, who’d care?”
Denial in one sense is a powerful form of argument. It is quite clear that the few white people who attend predominantly black churches are more than welcome most of the time. In fact I know of a white person who has been outcast by his conservative neighbors and friends for harboring pretty serious homosexual impulses and who ended up going to a predominantly African-american church. There are many instances where you would find white people worshipping side by side with black folks in black churches. The issue of race is important in these churches only in so far as it is relevant to the Christian ideas of justice, fairness and equality………
On the other hand, history is replete with instances of what happens in “white churches”. Think of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, the Christian Party in the U.S. and the numerous southern churches which were the cogs in the wheel of Slavery. They, in fact, were there to maintain and uphold the status quo of slavery besides tending to the spiritual needs of slave owners…..
It, in one sense, is astonishing when people accuse black churches of segregation and separatism. Who established separate places of worship for black people??
Posted 27 Mar 2007 at 9:59 pm ¶
eric daniels wrote:
There is no need for Dr. Wright or Senator Obama to apologize for a thing, White and Black conservatives are always saying that black people have no moral values, but the minute a church makes a commitment to that very same community they are called racist, give me a break. If anything, Roger Allies, Faux News and the rest of the racist right- wing machine owes Trinty an apology.
Rush like the ‘Rev’ Jesse “i can’t spell dog if you spotted him the D-O Peterson are hustlers trying to stir trouble and since all Dr. Wright is doing by debating them and Sean “racist’ Hannity is giving Faux News legitimacy it does not deserve. Sen. Obama is correct not to speak to that “news organization”, and Dr. Wright should do the same thing until they get an apology from Allies, the GOP for accusing thechurch of being racist.
Posted 28 Mar 2007 at 2:16 am ¶