Posted on 11/24/2021 10:13:00 AM PST by 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.
Whoa. I was literally going to write a check to the Salvation Army today and mail it.
Thank you for posting this. Also, that’s another $500 going to Hillsdale College!
Another example this is accurate:
John O’Sullivan’s First Law: All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.
Leftists take over the Human Resources department. They then hire communist friendlies and Rod the organization of anyone not going along. They do this through CRT “training” to create an environment anyone questioning their brainwashing is pushed out.
Politically it results in gulags. For now, you’d just get reprimanded and fired.
Hearing this makes me blue.
This red-blooded American’s green money will go somewhere else this White Christmas.
Salvation Army goes woke...
I will not apologize for something I have not done (or what my ancestors may or may not have done).
They fell to the Left when they gave in on "gay".
FU Salvation Army. You are dead to me now.
From now on, no more donations to you. No more volunteer work on your behalf.
Perhaps if you make a formal apology to me for being a bunch woke azzholes, I might reconsider.
Why don’t they di something Christian, like asking persons of any background to confess their sins? Soros must be laying a big lump sum matching grant out there. At one time, the organization refused donations derived from lottery winnings as gambling is sinful.
unforced error
Exactly what I was thinking.
Open up a word doc. Make a table that creates 12 boxes. Type up something like what Sirius Lee wrote in #5 and cut and paste in all boxes. Print. Cut up. Stick in purse and pockets so you have them ready to drop in the buckets you see at the stores.
“I made money off the backs of slaves (stocks in companies that have chinese slave labor) so I can’t, in good conscience, give any of my blood money to the Salvation Army anymore. Sorry.”
Sounds like total BS.
Dance with the one whut brung ya. Stupid, foot-shooting, ass-kissing, suicidal move.
Let’s Go Salvation Army!
Before you get all waffled up..as anyone fact checked this?
Ditto for me.
I’ve always spread the money around all the different places that the Salvation Army sets up their kettles. I am out and about quite a bit and I manage to hit a lot of them and I never leave coins. Well they can kiss that goodbye. I’m not funding an organization that hates me. And make no mistake that’s exactly what this is.
Well, that’s the end of my tithing to them. My 10% will go to Samaritan’s purse from now on.
Note, I’m not denying the existence of residual racism. I’m just denying my own inadvertent participation in this condescending BS.
From me they’ll get neither.
No Donations for you, and I will tell the kettle men why
If this is true, I am very disappointed that a Christian organization basically calls whites racists. And it is racist in itself. They just denigrated all the white race.
And when the stories about the "shortfall in donations" come out in January, the cause will be said to be due to Covid.
Those stories will last one-half of a news cycle and then disappear.
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