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Salvation Army's Donors Withdraw Support in Response to Racial 'Wokeness' Initiative
Newsweek ^ | November 24, 2021 | CARLY MAYBERRY 

Posted on 11/25/2021 6:09:57 PM PST by lowbridge

As The Salvation Army launches its Red Kettle Campaign this holiday season, some of its long-time donors are withdrawing their support from the 156-year old charitable organization citing its newly embraced "woke" ideology as the reason.

Of great concern to loyal supporters and faithful Salvationists is the initiative dubbed "Let's Talk About Racism." In a nutshell, its curriculum outlines the Christian church's alleged racial collusion and provides action steps to analyze and combat racism through an "anti-racist" lens while incorporating Critical Race Theory.

Definitions of institutional and systemic racism are included while real or perceived differences in life outcomes ("inequities") are attributable not to individual effort and other circumstances, but to discrimination. Sections address topics including police brutality, health care and Black unemployment linking such topics to "racial inequity."

That's troublesome for those who note The Salvation Army has been a leader in confronting racism long before the rest of the country and over five decades before the civil rights movement. And they're asking why then should members of an organization built by the Christian faith to actually assist people of all races in need, be repentant of behavior they never perpetuated?"

In my estimation, CRT is a Trojan horse taking in well-intentioned Christian enterprises that—because they care about justice and oppose oppression—naively promote the most serious threat to biblical Christianity I have seen in 50 years," wrote Christian apologist and radio talk show host Greg Koukl in a Facebook post earlier this month.

Entitled An Open Letter to The Salvation Army, Koukl prefaces the post by informing TSA that he is terminating his monthly donations and directing them to another organization. Koukl is also the founder and president of the Stand to Reason, a non-profit religious organization

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To: GOPJ

And they wonder why...


81 posted on 11/25/2021 8:40:15 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Cornpop was a good dude.)
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To: bhl

You could also just write it on a piece of paper. “Stop Being Communists” is a good message to send.


82 posted on 11/25/2021 8:40:37 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: lowbridge

The Salvation Social Justice Warriors.


83 posted on 11/25/2021 8:46:14 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: lowbridge

Roger that. We have now become our favorite charity. Get woke go broke.


84 posted on 11/25/2021 8:46:57 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: lowbridge
Dear FBI


85 posted on 11/25/2021 8:49:45 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: windsorknot

Sorry, posted #85 to wrong thread. Oops!


86 posted on 11/25/2021 8:54:19 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: hinckley buzzard

Wow! That is new, but not surprising. Looks like they let the wolves in.


87 posted on 11/25/2021 8:57:01 PM PST by madison10
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To: lowbridge

I hope they enjoy losing all their support and donations from “whitey”.


88 posted on 11/25/2021 9:01:35 PM PST by Trillian
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To: lowbridge

No more money into the street kettle until SA apologizes for its racism against whites.


89 posted on 11/25/2021 9:04:04 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: roving

I lived in Santa Barbara, California in the 1970’s.

I heard at the time that the captain at the local Salvation Army was keeping a lot of the donated antiques and art.


90 posted on 11/25/2021 9:12:45 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Donald J. Trump is my president, not the Commander-in-Thief, brain-dead Joseph Stolen)
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To: lowbridge; E. Pluribus Unum; sima_yi; BobL; jimfree
I have read several passages and most of appendix four and it is as bad as the comments I have heard. Supposedly this long document is a voluntary discussion guide, but what are the chances of advancing in the organization if you express disagreement with any of these statements?

Let’s Talk About Racism

https://s3.amazonaws.com/cache.salvationarmy.org/e0c074e3-39db-4b09-a6ea-aa5bdb6ecaa6_Let%2527s%2520Talk%2520About...%2520Racism%2520COMPLETE%2520SET.pdf

91 posted on 11/25/2021 9:57:38 PM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I have been donating to the Salvation Army since 1972 when I got back to the world, 100 dollars every quarter (even when it left me broke), told my wife yesterday that we wouldn’t be making any more donations to them, EVER!


92 posted on 11/25/2021 10:31:53 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Mark17
Beginning in the early 1960s, in an Orlando with a segregated public school system, as a cradle Catholic, I was educated with Black kids in the Catholic parochial schools. At home, there was never a word said against Black people, with Godless commies the only target of animosity. So what do I have to apologize or atone for as a Christian?
93 posted on 11/25/2021 10:33:12 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: sima_yi

What I was thinking, too.

I will do it... multiple times.


94 posted on 11/25/2021 10:48:10 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: lowbridge

Get woke, go broke.


95 posted on 11/25/2021 10:48:42 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“Instead of not donating, why don’t you contact their leaders and explain that their being used as pawns to create more division in this country.”

You think they’re that naive? The way you send them a message they will understand is by not donating.


96 posted on 11/25/2021 10:52:07 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: lowbridge

Nothing is sacred anymore. If they can turn the Salvation Army, they can force this bullcrap down the throat of any company or corporation.

Woke is broke. They better wake up before they all go broke.


97 posted on 11/26/2021 1:57:40 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: healy61

Thanks.

It’s just my personal opinion based on watching the functioning of staffs at various levels during 50+ years in the military and the defense industry.

I’m sort of beyond caring about opinions that reflect exactly zero understanding of how organizations, especially big ones, actually function.

In the final analysis, the leader is always responsible for what the organization does or doesn’t do. That’s the maxim. But what is unstated is that he or she may get a lot of “help” in getting to that point.

Sort of like being shoved into a buzz saw.


98 posted on 11/26/2021 2:07:58 AM PST by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow. )
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To: BrexitBen

The gibsmedats won’t be making up any shortfall in donations; they have all the time in the world and still I see none of them volunteer to do anything or support through donations.


99 posted on 11/26/2021 4:03:30 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: lowbridge

Uh.............to late you lose!


100 posted on 11/26/2021 4:11:19 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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