[Magdalen] Fwd: Re: [HoB/D] Charleston

[Robert Rea]

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Subject: Re: [HoB/D]  Charleston
Date: Sunday, June 21, 2015, 06:24:04 PM
From: Robert Rea <gapetard at stsams.org>
To: anthony clavier <anthonyfmclavier at gmail.com>

Oh Tony, you're not an American. It's part of who we are. It's endemic to our 
culture. Racism in this specific form is a deeply rooted part of who we are. 
We are blind to white privilege. The preacher today, speaking of Jesus asleep 
on the cushion and waking up to make the sea peaceful, said we need to wake 
up, see the turmoil, and do things to bring peace. My thought was that they 
are awake but don't care. It's black folks problem, nothing to do with us.

Feel free to share. 

kibitzer and an open out of the closet white person


On Sunday, June 21, 2015 04:21:17 PM anthony clavier wrote:
> I really can't understand how some of my friends can't bring themselves to
> acknowledge the grim reality of racism and who seek to advance the theory
> that symbols of racism are somehow neutral, because they fear that to admit
> this horror would somehow weaken their other political ideals. My
> great-great grandfather, Antoine Clavier de Cas Navire was black, of mixed
> race, a graduate of the Sorbonne, who was expelled from Martinique for
> championing the rights of slaves. My grandfather, a doctor, was colored.
> When he came to England from Guyana after the war, when I was seven, I met
> him and gasped, "Mummy my Grandpa is a black man." He roared with laughter
> and loved me. I was taught from the earliest age that color, like beauty is
> skin deep, and that it's who we are, not what we are that counts. It sounds
> simple but it is hard to break out of safer habits.
> 
> However I'm very much afraid that when the dust settles, we will swiftly
> forget the Charleston massacre, the media will move to another subject,
> and, until this sort of tragedy recurs, we will bury our heads in the sand
> because we dare not admit that there runs through contemporary society a
> deep vein of intolerance towards any caste that isn't like our own. Jesus
> wept.
> 
> 
> Tony, DNI alt 2012
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Bob Rea
mailto:gapetard at stsams.org
http://www.petard.us
http://www.petard.us/blog
http://www.petard.us/gallery

America, it was a wonderful country
        until they took it private
        and turned it into a theme park of itself