Tag: race
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A Sermon: Take Up Your Lynching Tree and Follow Me.
A lightly edited version of yesterday’s sermon from Mark 8:27-9:1 at New Community. Our passage begins: “Jesus & his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi.” This geographical context is important. Mark wants us to remember that Jesus is first recognized as Messiah near Caesarea Philippi, that he Jesus first predicts his execution near Caesarea…
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“…white men have a vested interest in upholding the racial hierarchy…”
To people of color like me, the movement toward a more level playing field is occurring at a painfully glacial pace. But to many white men, the change is happening so fast and it all seems so painful! Sociologists Henderson and Herring note that when white men begin to feel the effects of equality (e.g.,…
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“…a cog in the machine of a racist hierarchy.”
In America, racism is a default setting. To do nothing, to go along with the market, to claim innocence or neutrality, is to inevitably be a cog in the machine of racist hierarchy. These two sentences, by Ta-Nehisi Coates in a moving article about Nina Simone, perfectly summarizes why neutrality isn’t an option when it comes…
David W. Swanson 