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Solidarity and Poverty

[blockquote type=”center”]What does solidarity with the poor look like when you’re trying to avoid generational poverty?[/blockquote]   This is a question I’ve been sitting with for awhile now. And I read this article earlier today that made me think some things.   I was born in 1981, so I’m just barely a millennial, and my…

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Convergence-Emergence: Same Shit, Different Decade

[blockquote type=”center”] “Reconciliation can be understood as exchanging places with ‘the other,’ overcoming alienation through identification, solidarity, restoring relationships, positive change, new frameworks, and a rich togetherness that is both spiritual and political.” Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism (p12) [/blockquote] It’s been 14 years since A New Kind of Christian. 10 years since…

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The Commoditization of Social Relationships

[blockquote type=”center”]“The Solomonic establishment embodies the loss of passion, which is the inability to care or suffer.” (The Prophetic Imagination 41) [/blockquote] “The first transcontinental railroad was built with blood, sweat, politics and thievery, out of the meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads. The Central Pacific started on the West Coast going…

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The Grind of Endless Production

[blockquote type=”center”]”The Solomonic achievement was in part made possible by oppressive social policy…Fundamental to social policy was the practice of forced labor, in which at least to some extent subjects existed to benefit the state or the political economy….it was unmistakably the policy of the regime to mobilize and claim the energies of people for…

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Where White People Should Start

[blockquote type=”center”] I guess all we can really do toward racial reconciliation is work on our own selves, right? Prioritizing understanding over self-defense is a good first step (although a doozy). Being heard is THE prerequisite to healing conversations. If you try to understand me then I automatically want to try to understand you. Humility…

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The First Thanksgiving – A Day of Mourning

  “Reconciliation without meaningful restitution merely reinscribes the status quo without holding anyone accountable for ongoing injustices. At its core, reconciliation has a religious connotation premised on restoring one’s relationship with God. In fact, most Indigenous nations don’t have words for reconciliation in their languages, which is the truest test of its lack of relevance…

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Myth of America – Biased History Lesson

Why is the struggling winter of the Pilgrims portrayed in a better light than the Starving Time of Jamestown?  Why has the story of the Pilgrims and Indians become the foundation of Americana?  And how can we show kids that the way history is told may be biased? Let’s look at the stories of Columbus,…

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Being Comfortable with Oppression

  There have been a few posts out lately that I’ve been thinking about.  You don’t need to read them before continuing, but they might give some context to this post.   “Yet it is on the whole a kindly society, for wars and depressions have victimized both whites and blacks.  Their shared experiences have…

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Day 7 – Links for Anti-Racism Work

A new thing I’ve been doing, when I become overwhelmed with all the bad news, is to find the people and groups that are doing good work. So as a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Ferguson, here are links and resources to people who are doing good anti-racism work, and also ways to keep up…

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