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

[Grace Cangialosi]

And if you really want to start a heated argument, try mentioning the term "white privilege"! But as long as we refuse to acknowledge and discuss this reality, we will never have true racial reconciliation in this country.
I preached about this this morning, but I'm going to put that experience in a new thread.

> On Jun 21, 2015, at 6:26 PM, Robert Rea <gapetard at stsams.org> wrote:
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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>
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> 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.
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> Feel free to share. 
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> kibitzer and an open out of the closet white person
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>> 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.
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>> 
>> Tony, DNI alt 2012
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> America, it was a wonderful country
>        until they took it private
>        and turned it into a theme park of itself
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