Along with coins this Christmas, Salvation Army wants white donors to offer a "sincere apology" for their racism

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[TigerClaws]

The Salvation Army wants its white donors to give it more than just money this Christmas season. Its leadership is also demanding they apologize for being racist.

It's part of a push by the Christian charitable organization to embrace the ideas of Black Lives Matter, an activist group working to, among other things, "dismantle white privilege" and "disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure."

The Salvation Army's Alexandria-based leadership has created an "International Social Justice Commission" which has developed and released a "resource" to educate its white donors, volunteers and employees called Let's Talk about Racism. It asserts Christianity is institutionally racist, calling for white Christians to repent and offer "a sincere apology" to blacks for being "antagonistic.. to black people or the culture, values and interests of the black community."

"Many have come to believe that we live in a post-racial society, but racism is very real for our brothers and sisters who are refused jobs and housing, denied basic rights and brutalized and oppressed simply because of the color of their skin," one lesson explains. "There is an urgent need for Christians to evaluate racist attitudes and practices in light of our faith, and to live faithfully in today’s world."

In an accompanying Study Guide on Racism, Salvation Army authors explain that all whites are racist, even if they don't realize it.

“The subtle nature of racism is such that people who are not consciously racist easily function with the privileges, empowerment and benefits of the dominant ethnicity, thus unintentionally perpetuating injustice," it says.

"Sunday school curriculum that only uses white photography and imagery" is an example given that perpetuates injustice.

"We must stop denying the existence of individual and systemic/ institutional racism. They exist, and are still at work to keep White Americans in power," the lesson says.

"These systems give privileges to white people"

Let's Talk about Racism pushes arguments identical to those of leading "Critical Race Theory" purveyors Robin DiAngelo and Henry Rogers (a.k.a. Ibram Kendi), whose work is recommended by Salvation Army authors.

DiAngelo and Rogers (Kendi) claim that any observable difference in relative behavior or accomplishment between racial groups is due to the inherent racism of whites, arguing against the traditional American concept of equal opportunity in favor of the Marxist-inspired goal of equality of outcome.

"Structural racism.. is the overarching system of racial bias across institutions and society. These systems give privileges to White people resulting in disadvantages to (blacks)," reads a Salvation Army lesson.

Proponents of "Critical Race Theory" don't believe whites, Asians or Hispanics can avoid being prejudiced against blacks. They want them to demonstrate what they call "anti-racism" in favor of blacks, helping to establish lower standards for them than they do members of other racial groups, or making cash "reparation" payments to blacks as compensation for alleged previous racism.

"Stop trying to be ‘colorblind’. While this might sound helpful, it actually ignores the God-given differences we all possess, as well as the beautiful cultures of our Black and Brown brothers and sisters," Let's Talk about Racism explains. "Instead of trying to be colorblind, try seeing the beauty in our differences, and welcome them into your homes churches and workplaces. Being colorblind also ignores the discrimination our Black and Brown brothers and sisters face and does not allow us to address racism properly."

Founded in 1865 in London, England, the Salvation Army is both a protestant Christian church and an international charitable organization. Its first "red kettle" was set up in Oakland, California in 1891.

National advisory board members include Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones, Chick-Fil-A Foundation President Rodney Bullard and charter school pioneer J.C. Huizenga.

[sauropod]

Stopped giving to them when they walked out of some event or other for Trump.

They’re dead to me.

[Penelope Dreadful]

Well, it looks like the Salvation Army has gone to “pot” literally speaking. ( You know, kettle - pot - gone to pot - oh never mind, if I have to explain it. . .)

[Leep]

BTW
Why not cut out the middleman and help a neighbor or towns person directly?

[glennaro]

What the Salvation Army is doing to itself is a very sad thing indeed.

I read the missive (the manifesto, if you prefer) and although I'll give this historically fine organization the benefit of the doubt that this truly awful promotion was not intentional -- that it was not done with deliberate intent to provoke -- it is undeniably racist in its tone as well as in its very words.

I've been dropping money in the kettle -- most every SA kettle I come across -- for many decades, but until the Salvation Army makes a full retraction -- publicly, and not in the form of an "explanation" -- I will pass silently by every kettle I come across.

I simply cannot support an organization -- no matter how worthy and no matter how well-intentioned -- that promotes racism. There it is.

[rlmorel]

I am very disappointed by this. I have given thousands of dollars to the Salvation Army over the year, not counting the money I put in their kettles. Like you, I put money in every kettle I see.

Or, had.

Just won’t do it anymore. That saddens me. But it was they who started down this racist road, not me.

[ladyjane]

I am very disappointed by this.

I don't know who to trust anymore. Not the church. Not the politicians. Not the SCOTUS. Not any judges. Not the (p)resident who doesn't believe in self-defense. It's the world gone mad.

[rlmorel]

My bank, who I had been with for more that 40 years, went completely woke. It took me six months to extricate myself from them and go to another bank.

I got rid of my credit card which was with a woke organization, now my current one is woke, so I have to figure out what to do there.

I was a lifelong user of Gillette products, and they so disrespected me with their militant woke agenda I dropped them immediately, will never use them again.

I had Netflix, and they became so disgustingly woke that I dropped them as soon as I could.

I was a Boy Scout, and I gave money to them whenever I could. I cannot support them anymore due to their stance on homosexuality.

I used GoFundMe, now I use GiveSendGo.

Now this.

I feel that I am constantly being backed into a corner. It makes me angry, but the fact that giving money to a company or organization supports them forces me to drop them.

I hate it. I hate this crap. I hate it. I see the cowardly cancer everywhere, and I see the willingness to embrace the corrosive cancer as a craven self preservation measure at best, and woke Leftists at the helm who actually believe the filth.

[dhs12345]

By getting all preachy and virtue signaling. The are a “good organization” for doing it. I feel all warm inside, now.

Forget that it is total BS and insincere and that they have lost all integrity and value by whoring themselves to the left.