Posted on 11/21/2015 10:32:05 AM PST by rightistight
Jennifer Harvey, a Professor of Religion at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, is calling on "white Christians" to repent for their forefathers' sins and their current privilege by paying reparations.
Speaking at Drew Theological School, Dr. Harvey said that calling all races "equal" is "a morally incoherent paradigm" that cannot solve the racial injustices that are in the United States. Instead, white Christians need to "repent" by paying reparations to African Americans.
"Reconciliation rests on the assumption that all of our differences can be similarly celebrated and embraced," she explained. "I can come to better love and appreciate your blackness, your native-ness, your Latino-ness, and you need to come to better love my whiteness?
"It's a morally incoherent paradigm. It doesn't work."
Racial identities in the United States are not equal and treating people equally will not fix the US's problems, she continues: "Even when we add attention to white privilege- which we must- even when we talk about justice needing to be present for reconciliation to happen- which of course we should- at its core, the reconciliation paradigm presumes a kind of moral, spiritual, cultural parallel in our racial identities, and my friends, it's just not so. And we've got to stop pretending it's so, or we'll keep having these same conversations over and over."
Instead, Dr. Harvey suggests that white Christians need to repent by paying African Americans reparations for their ill-gotten money.
White Christians have profited from "white supremacy" in the United States and black people still face discrimination similar to that of the 1960s and before, according to Harvey. Therefore, the "reparations paradigm" is the logical next step.
"Right now the prophetic fire of movements like the Black Lives Matter movement, the work that Dreamers are doing, is creating spaces within which white Christians might make that new choice," Harvey declared. "Repentance and repair is not easy work. But it doesn't mean that it can't flow into obvious, pragmatic solutions. It's uncertain and difficult, but it is sacred work."
In a separate speech given in June in Minnesota, Dr. Harvey further stated, "A reparations paradigm can help us identify more clearly, and utterly necessary pathways for responding to our actual racial situation; pathways far more productive, truth-full, and life-giving than any that reconciliation has been able to open up so far."
Dr. Harvey is the author of Whiteness and Morality: Pursuing Racial Justice through Reparations and Sovereignty and a co-editor of Disrupting White Supremacy: White People on What We Need To Do.
FU
She looks like a professor at Dike University.
Are these people off their rockers? My family did not get any money except by. working dawn to dusk. I am into genealogy and not one had any slaves. These people need to get a life and work for their money.
What the hell does she think we have been doing for the past 50 years?
So how much has Dr. Harvey ponnied up so far?
BTW—saw “her” picture. She looks like a guy.
“I paid at the office.”
Which black people do I send the bill to for my great-great-grandfather who was killed fighting against slavery in the Civil War? I think I should get a couple of million for the harm that was done to my family who then lived in poverty until taken in by a Christian minister.
Yes, sounds like that to me too. Man, this world is going nuts.
Already repaid when same white Christians freed them.
As soon as I get reparations from the arabs for enslaving europeans that abducted along the coast and reparations from Rome for enslaving europeans during their conquest and reparations from the norwegians from the damage done by viking raiders, ect.
Equality is a morally incoherent paradigm? Wow!
If we gave blacks all of our accumulated wealth it would not remove the inadequacies of black life. They are what they are and we should ignore them as much as possible and go on with our lives. Remove them from economic programs, take away the preferences in academic and employment areas etc. In short act like we mean to govern once more.
Give them $50,000 and a one way ticket to Africa.
I agree ... my G-G-G grandfather was General Elon J. Farnsworth, a Union Cavalry General killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. No other past members of my family ever owned a single slave.
LOOK at that carpet-munchin’ saddle-fly.
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