Education is the key to ameliorating racism and anti-semitism in this country. Such and education shouldn't be limited to only the young. The folks from this church are amazing and are contributing so much to our cause. Wouldn't it be great if this kind of thing caught on and became the norm?Trip teaches church members about racism and themselves
By Janet I. Tu
Seattle Times staff reporter
For some, the most powerful part of a recent bus trip through the South was seeing close up what they'd only read about in history books: the childhood home of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a bombed out Freedom Ride bus, a Ku Klux Klan robe.
For others, it was making friends of a different race, and realizing why some people never have to think about race while others have it constantly on their minds.
In November, about 40 Pacific Northwest members of the Chicago-based Evangelical Covenant Church flew from Seattle to Atlanta for a bus tour of civil-rights sites in the South, including the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., and the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., where a bombing in 1963 killed four black girls.
Called a Sankofa journey, from a West African word meaning "looking backward to move forward," the trips are designed to speak to a phenomenon King observed decades ago that remains largely true today: that Sunday-morning church services are the most segregated hour in the nation.
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Education has helped reduce racism but until mental illness is elminated is completely treated, you're always going to have some racism around.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Harry. We will never see the end to it. But, stories like these just make me feel like there are those out there who will take it upon themselves to do SOMETHING about this situation.
ReplyDeleteIf I am ever in that area, I intend to visit that church and say thanks.
Why is it that if one cares and protects his race that he always is Mentally Ill. That makes no sense at all. If Whites do it they're Tarded, but if Niggers do it they're proud.
ReplyDeleteSteve, please refrain from saying "n*****" on this blog. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThe article is about a church group who visited civil rights sites in an effort to help others see what things were really like.
ReplyDeleteYou'll have to forgive Matt, Nikki. His eyes only see two colors - black and white.
ReplyDelete(There's a potential joke there with Stormfront and Overthrow, but I digress)
LOL @~~~Mike! True enough! It must be awful to have such a myopic view of the world.
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ReplyDeleteYou know and I know that the pro-white movement is based on hatred of jews, blacks, gays and others, not on love for the white race.
And the hatred revolves mostly around mental illness, paranoia, and low self-esteem.
Good information on the holocaust and refuting revisionism.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nizkor.org
Thanks for the link, Harry.
ReplyDeleteAlso I could not have said it better - or as succinctky - as you did with regard to the truaims of most in the racist right.
Mercy, that Imposter of mine has that mouth watering craving.
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