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

[Jon Egger]

There is also, sadly, Christian privilege, in the US.  They're the folks
who want all of us to think/act/worship in their true way.  Fundamentalism
of any stripe is dangerous.

Grace and peace,
jon

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> > ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> >
> > 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
> > --
> > 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
> >
> > -----------------------------------------
> > --
> > 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
> >
> >
>