racism. Restore us to our whole selves that we may be able to serve Christ in all persons. And rescue us from complacency that we may be compelled to action, until all are truly free. Amen.
(LAUREN R. HOLDER, ST. LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH )
Article:
Forgiveness is the problem when it goes only one way
An excerpt from Leonard Pitts:
Here’s the thing about forgiveness.
It’s not just something you extend to someone else. It’s also a gift you give yourself, permission to lay down the heavy burden of grudges and rage. And if you’re a Christian, it’s an obligation — albeit a hard one — of faith.
One can believe all that, yet still be deeply conflicted by last week’s act of forgiveness in a Dallas courtroom: Brandt Jean, who is black, embraced and absolved Amber Guyger, the white former police officer who had just been sentenced to 10 years for killing his brother, Botham. Guyger had entered Botham’s apartment mistakenly believing it was hers...
This is a very interesting obituary:
Noel Ignatiev, scholar who called for abolishing whiteness, dies at 78
An excerpt:
Ignatiev’s best-known book, “How the Irish Became White,” was immediately influential and controversial upon its publication in 1995. It touched off a firestorm of debate at the time at academic conferences and in the pages of newspapers. In time his view that whiteness is a social and political construction — and not a phenomenon with a biological basis — has become mainstream. The resurgence of white identity politics and white nationalism in recent years made Ignatiev’s arguments relevant to a new generation of readers who argued the notion that race is more about power and privilege rather than about ancestry, or even identity.
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