Archive for April, 2008
Jesus For President
At the CCDA (Christian Community Development Association) conference last October, one book caught my eye. Okay, several did. But this one had the catchiest title. And Shane Claiborne, one of the authors, wasn’t easy to ignore either.
The book was published by Zondervan. Anybody seen/read it?
Shane works where he lives: in the Potter Street Community in [...]
Conquer Racism?
Harry R. Jackson, Jr. has some thoughts on the issue of conquering racism in America. His deadline for doing it? 2018.
Read about his Reconciliation Referendum here and here.
Here’s an excerpt of his recent article on conquering racism in 10 years:
“It is time for America to see the Church as an unbiased representative of Christ. Over [...]
Turning White
Here’s a story about one man’s experience with a skin disease called vitiligo. It is a story of strength and revelation. The author, a TV reporter named Lee Thomas, says that “no matter what you look like you can still achieve your dream.”
More Links:
Three Revealing Videos
Lee’s Foundation, Turning White
About Vitiligo
Ray Bakke Anyone?
From what I can tell from the quote below (taken from “A Theology as Big as the City”) Ray Bakke is more than an urban development professor and pioneer. He’s a dangerous man.
“On God’s green earth, white people only comprise 13 percent of the population…I believe if you are a white parent with white kids [...]
Blood Done Sign My Name
Dr. Tim Tyson’s celebrated and award-winning book, Blood Done Sign My Name, will be coming to the big screen in 2009. The book, Tyson’s autobiography written in 2004, tells the story of “1970 murder of Henry Marrow, a black man, by a local white man Robert Teel and his sons, prompted by Marrow’s alleged suggestive [...]
Apologizing for an Institution
Earlier this year, the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, apologized for the century of stealing the children of Aboriginal descent and placing them in white Australian ‘foster’ homes. The practice, which occurred into the 1970s according to some sources, involved taking the children from their homes without conscent and using them as guides, farm labor, [...]
It’s Time to Start Talking
One of our catch phrases in our racial reconciliation supper club was, “If you don’t know, you better ask somebody.”
Well one day in 2001, we let our brothers and sisters of “the lighter hue” do some asking. I’ve included those questions below (yes, I kept the list for seven years).
Anyone care to answer any?
I firmly [...]
Blind, Tired, and Angry
In recent weeks many Americans have grown very familiar with the term racial reconciliation. Suddenly it’s spread beyond the rare pockets of socially-minded evangelicals and sociologists and made its way into our politics.
By its basic definition, reconciliation implies doing something again; that is, something that’s been done before. So reconciling our nation racially is a [...]
Meeting David Wilson
Here’s a family reunion story with a twist: a black man from the city in New Jersey meets a white man living in the shadow of a plantation in North Carolina. They have the same name. And, yes, they’re related.
For more on this true story, as told by the brown-skinned David Wilson, at http://meetingdavidwilson.com/ .
