Tag: Frederick Douglass

Neck and neck: George Floyd’s death is a symbol of racialized oppression

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“Why is it that Christianity seems impotent to deal radically, and therefore effectively, with the issues of discrimination and injustice on the basis of race, religion and national origin?” | Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited “The white man’s foot is on my neck.”  I heard this expression as a child.  It was used to […]

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Here’s a thought and a prayer

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I went to bed thinking about the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.  There was talk of a racist manifesto and the murderer writing about the “invasion of Hispanics.”  El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen told reporters, “(It has) a nexus to potential hate crime.”  #WhiteSupremacistTerrorism was trending on Twitter.  This morning, #TrumpsTerrorists has replaced […]

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Sending word

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Life is filled with false starts, abrupt stops, detours and wrong turns. We didn’t know it would take this long to come to ourselves, that there were so many copies to choose from, that being original is harder than it looks, that it is easier to repeat, to nod in agreement with the majority, that […]

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Memorial Day: To Celebrate on Sunday or Monday?

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How shall we honor the fallen and our veterans?  Patriotism and with it, nationalism are problematic words for they carry at least two meanings and several sides to the story of our democracy.  We need only look to Frederick Douglass’ speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” to realize our differences of […]

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No Deal

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Good Morning Race-less but Christ-filled People, Tomorrow, I will lead a spiritual retreat on “Leading the Race-less Life” for members of a spiritual support group at the Servant Leadership School in Washington, D.C. I began the blog this past March and to now have an opportunity to share with others the work of The Daily […]

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