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It’s Time for Whites to Accept Responsibility for Racist Systems
Time Magazine ^ | October 15, 2014 | Rev. Jim Wallis, Obama's Spiritual Mentor

Posted on 10/15/2014 11:24:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Ferguson must be a moral wake-up call to white parents, not just another warning to black parents.

I and many other faith leaders came to Ferguson, Missouri, on Sunday and Monday because of Michael Brown—an 18-year-old black teenager who, though unarmed, was shot and killed by a white police officer on August 9. My first thoughts when I heard the news were about my 16-year-old son Luke. I knew how unlikely it would be that this would ever happen to my white son in America.

Coming to Ferguson was about Michael Brown. But Ferguson has also become a parable for our nation. Jesus often told parables. A parable is just a story, but often one with a simple but important point.

The Ferguson parable is simply this: black lives in America are worth less than white lives—especially in our criminal justice system....

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: blacks; ferguson; michaelbrown; trayvons; whites
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To: jsanders2001

behave themselves

Dey caintz do dat! Dat wud mean dey is actin’ white! Who duz yu tink yu iz tellin’ black folks tuh act white?


61 posted on 10/16/2014 4:59:49 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Texas isn't just a state. It's a state of mind!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Evidence of white racism:

National White Caucus
White Student Unions
National Association for the Advancement of White People
United White College Fund
White Entertainment Television
Miss White America Pageant

and on and on and on......


62 posted on 10/16/2014 5:01:44 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Texas isn't just a state. It's a state of mind!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

ROFL!

how about a barf alert for this trash!

If it’s time for anything, it’s time for blacks to drop the blame game and start taking responsibility for their plight, and instead of blaming whites for everything, wake up and see the Democratic party is the source of many of their woes.


63 posted on 10/16/2014 5:07:06 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

Time magazine = “GIMME FREE STUFF”

says the dying leftwing propaganda rag.


64 posted on 10/16/2014 5:08:33 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Parents? Plural? 72% of blacks are having children out if wedlock. This is a problem of morality and sexual STUPIDITY. Yeah, I have a problem with anybody like that. Put my life and way of life at risk because of a little “extra lovin’” on Saturday nite? This is the result...and you cannot FORCE me to accept it. This behavior, the CAUSE and the RESULT are unacceptable.


65 posted on 10/16/2014 5:09:36 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ($$$$$$$$ DEFUND OBAMA! $$$$$$$)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Blaming a race of people for things some of their supposed ancestors (how many Italian or Polish immigrants owned slaves? Oh yeah, wrong decades) did long before they were born. I guess irony just doesn’t register with these morons nor the fact that their race card is being increasingly declined.


66 posted on 10/16/2014 5:12:55 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: Nailbiter

Wallis is a creepy triangulation stooge for hitlary.

They pull him out when they want to use a fake Christian argument to clothe the leftism for useful idiot Christians.


67 posted on 10/16/2014 5:15:13 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Still Thinking

OK, let’s take a look around the world where “white systems” are not in place.... well... uh... no thanks.

And, BTW, I don’t believe in the concept of “white systems”. I believe in Western, Judeo-Christian based societies and economies and see the resultant success of those economies for those that play by those rules.

I also see societies and economies that have eschewed those values, and I see misery, poverty, and disease.


68 posted on 10/16/2014 5:15:57 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: longtermmemmory

GIMME YT’S STUFF


69 posted on 10/16/2014 5:16:53 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; wardaddy

I have about .223 reasons I won’t be paying reparations.


70 posted on 10/16/2014 5:27:06 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ferguson must be a moral wake-up call to blacks to clean up their violent criminal fostering culture.


71 posted on 10/16/2014 5:28:50 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (The ferguson rioters, looters and arsonists are DOMESTIC LEFT WING TERRORISTS)
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To: Travis McGee

You already are and have been.

There’s not a one of Obola’s policies that hasn’t been de facto reparations since he took office.

Every policy “disparately impacts” citizens of America by race.


72 posted on 10/16/2014 5:30:57 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
And the solution to the imaginary crisis is a racist system run by blacks.
73 posted on 10/16/2014 5:39:35 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whites are not responsible for black racism. Blacks are.
Whites are not responsible for black cultural ennui. Blacks are.
Whites are not responible for black violence. Blacks are.
Whites are not responsible for black poverty. Blacks are.
Whites are not responsible for black criminality. Blacks are.

Whites are not responsible for blacks. Blacks are.

Would you like me to repeat that, Rev?


74 posted on 10/16/2014 5:51:03 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Politicalkiddo

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” Goethe


75 posted on 10/16/2014 5:59:23 AM PDT by all the best
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

call me when one of these police shootings involves a non aggressive victim.

Having said that, yes it`s heartbreaking that so many blacks are involved in crime and in jail.

I think they need to look to the Black Church, yes the black Church that turned it`s back on God for the Democrat party.

The Black Church teaches no need to respect life, if it feels good do it, no responsibility etc.

The Black church had a rich Christian heritage that they just threw out the window, they vote for the removal of God/Christ from the classroom/public square, they have embraced abortion and now gay marriage.

They have basically turned their churches/faith over to the Democrat party

Yes I believe this


76 posted on 10/16/2014 7:27:16 AM PDT by Friendofgeorge (Justice for officer Darren------------ PALIN 2016 OR BUST)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“My first thoughts when I heard the news were about my 16-year-old son Luke. I knew how unlikely it would be that this would ever happen to my white son in America”

Probably because your son would commit a strong arm robbery of a convenience store, walk brazenly down the middle of the street and then attack a police officer while he was attemptimg to exit his car, try to grab his gun and assault him.


77 posted on 10/16/2014 7:46:35 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
...black lives in America are worth less than white lives—especially in our criminal justice system...

And to other blacks, their primary cause of death.

78 posted on 10/16/2014 7:47:55 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Captainpaintball

“Is it wrong for me to wish Jim Wallis takes the Ebola Diarrhea Bucket Challenge sometime soon?”

While LMAO I totally agree with you.


79 posted on 10/16/2014 8:03:52 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: Friendofgeorge

80 posted on 10/16/2014 9:20:06 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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