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.
YOU HAVE RUINED A PERFECTLY GOOD . . . I can’t say it
because then you’ll just smart off again! - Anyway, either
fix that kitchenware or else go to Walmart and buy a
replacement!!! - DO NOT SMART OFF!!!!
I guarantee this wench makes more than most white people. And puss off woman! I’m third generation American! Grandfather was a poor share cropper. We would have gone hungry many times if not for the toil in a garden every year. These people are pathetic.
I think she should apologize for her culture.
Good point! Blacks need to pay a Freedom Fee to the descendants of any whites who fought to free them. We owe blacks NOTHING. They owe descendants of Union soldiers. I want my money with interest.
Come get it, Teach.
Did Dr. Harvey get a government grant to write her tripe?
Let’s do reparations. Take away all food stamps, obamacare, welfare, obamaphones, etc. Then give all black families 40 acres and a mule and tell them to go support themselves with it.
Are there any heteros left in academia?
Well, I’m disqualified from this thread because I had a
peanut butter, banana & honey on toast this morning. (A
black guy making an effort formulated a lot of stuff with
peanuts.) - Anyway, my great great grandfather fought as a
Rebel at Shiloh; told my grandmother when she asked that
Shiloh was, “Lord, Lord, Izora, Shiloh was the biggest
mess I’ve ever seen in my life, so much confusion I
couldn’t tell if I killed anybody or not - but can’t see
how I could have kept from it!” - He was a Southern farmer,
dirt poor, fighting Yankees because ya’ll were down here!
I did have one fifth or sixth great grandfather who kept a
few slaves down in Georgia Territory back in the 1700’s.
His son married a Cherokee woman, his mother had a
case of conniption vapors and he & his wife departed on
a barge going up the TN River (after his daddy gave him
his inheritance in gold), disembarked at Perryville, TN,
and that’s how I ended up in Tennessee with my name
besmirched eternally for having Indian blood AND having
ancestors who kept slaves.
Maybe it should be the other way around, y’all have not had a white idiot president in some time now.
The vast majority of white people in the United States never had any connection with slavery.
Italians and Jews only arrived in large numbers about 40 years after all slaves were freed.
For every Irish immigrant that owned a slave, probably about twenty died trying to free the slaves.
For every German immigrant that owned a slave, probably about one hundred died trying to free the slaves.
I was the first of my family to go south of the Mason-Dixon line, in 1975.
My Great Grandfather was wounded at Gettysburg.Unfortunately he fought for the wrong side .NORTH!
Laz wouldn’t hit it.
As long as they line up on their knees and beg wildly for it while I lord it over them that it is pure charity for the worthless........that is how they will all feel two days after receiving the check upon seeing each white man.
Nothing will ever satisfy for an injustice that has anything to do with money or power. Only Jesus Christ can take away their hurt or anger.
My parents left Germany between World Wars I&II and arrived in the US with what little they could carry. Neither one ever received a college education. They both worked and saved enough to buy a house for themselves and their four children. We were all college educated post high school. In five years I earned two engineering degrees and maintained a 3.48/4.00 GPA, (never less then a B). I payed my own way with student loans which were re-payed in full in two years.
Tell that ignorant professor to stick reparations in her ear. The United States is the land of opportunity and if you get off your dead ass and work hard you can rise as far as your talents will take you.
Regards,
GtG
PS I've been married to the same woman for 40 years, she is also the daughter of an immigrant family.
Really? well listen up you dumb bitch, my forefathers only dealings with slavery was on the enslaved side of the equation. So why don’t you tell the Blacks to get their friggin reparations from the same people responsible...........the muslins!
I call on Leftist professors to repent for their anti-Americanism by joining the Marines. :)
actually arab muslims and african tribes are responsible for the slave trade to the west. So they need to be the ones offering reparations
Good for y’all. My ancestors have been here for hundreds of years. Two came over on the Mayflower and one was Indian so they may have met them. : ) I have a double cousin who does not want to hear anything about our Cherokee heritage. He might as well accept it since it can not be changed. Just like these kooks wanting everything connected to Wilson, our Confederate flag, Stone Mountain, etc removed. That junk only shows how dumb they really are. It does not change a thing.
Shoot. The military would not want them——too dumb.
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