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.
Agreed!
These ANIMALS were brought over here to be sold into slavery by THE DUTCH, THE BRITISH, THE FRENCH, THE SPANISH and.. oh yeah - BY THEIR OWN TRIBAL LEADERS in AFRICA..
It was the AMERICANS who FREED THEM FROM SLAVERY!!
Nobody owes them CRAP. Particularly AMERICANS.
I'll write the check for my family and I. Tell me where to send it. Afterwords, there will be NO MORE EXCUSES for blacks bad behavior, being on welfare, committing the overwhelming majority of all violent crime in America, "black culture" and any form of whining that they can't make it without government help.
No more affirmative action, no more section 8 housing, no more food stamps, no more free Obama phones, no more anything "free."
You make it on your own, or you fail on your own. You don't work, you don't eat.
One last thing: YOU DON'T GET TO BLAME WHITEY FOR JACK SHIT ANYMORE EITHER!
Deal?
...and they'll think they're a ruler.
I’m a first generation American. Do I get a pass?
welfare, insurance, EBT, HUD, obama phones, affirmative action, EEO payout to “black farmers”...
What the F’ else do they want????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
maybe i shouldnt ask
One thing is certain. We definitely do not have a shortage of DUMBASSES in this nation!
When do we stop paying reparations? We’re paying them now through immoral, exorbitant taxation which provides billions in welfare to blacks who do not need it, but instead need to get a job.
Jarrett said Obama is not a Lame Duck and there are Big things to come. I bet she has paying reparations as one of them
I will send a check out of the proceeds I get when I liquidate my current slave holdings.
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How about you just get your share of blood shed instead? You keep poking this dog, and one of these days he will rip your throat out.
I don't think anyone is willing to take one for the team, even a little bit.
Let me tell you something, the entitlement crowd WILL NEVER be GRATEFUL even if you give them the Moon.
Simply because there is no feeling of gratitude UNLESS YOU EARN what you have.
“is calling on “white Christians” “
So.....if one is not ‘white’ or not ‘Christian’ or maybe even both then that person is exempt from paying reparations?
I think that I just solved our problem! ;-)
Try it. The “reparations” will prove to be a bit pyrotechnic.
Obamaholes.
victim card + oppression card + blame game + guilt trip = reparations
No, it’s trying to look like a man. It’s a woman.
Dead, injured, disfigured.
Sounds like a plan.
Sounds to me that she’s saying blacks are not as capable as whites and need special ‘coddling’.
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