But really we don't have to come out and say what it is about.
Posted on 11/21/2015 10:32:05 AM PST by rightistight
Jennifer Harvey, a Professor of Religion at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, is calling on "white Christians" to repent for their forefathers' sins and their current privilege by paying reparations.
Speaking at Drew Theological School, Dr. Harvey said that calling all races "equal" is "a morally incoherent paradigm" that cannot solve the racial injustices that are in the United States. Instead, white Christians need to "repent" by paying reparations to African Americans.
"Reconciliation rests on the assumption that all of our differences can be similarly celebrated and embraced," she explained. "I can come to better love and appreciate your blackness, your native-ness, your Latino-ness, and you need to come to better love my whiteness?
"It's a morally incoherent paradigm. It doesn't work."
Racial identities in the United States are not equal and treating people equally will not fix the US's problems, she continues: "Even when we add attention to white privilege- which we must- even when we talk about justice needing to be present for reconciliation to happen- which of course we should- at its core, the reconciliation paradigm presumes a kind of moral, spiritual, cultural parallel in our racial identities, and my friends, it's just not so. And we've got to stop pretending it's so, or we'll keep having these same conversations over and over."
Instead, Dr. Harvey suggests that white Christians need to repent by paying African Americans reparations for their ill-gotten money.
White Christians have profited from "white supremacy" in the United States and black people still face discrimination similar to that of the 1960s and before, according to Harvey. Therefore, the "reparations paradigm" is the logical next step.
"Right now the prophetic fire of movements like the Black Lives Matter movement, the work that Dreamers are doing, is creating spaces within which white Christians might make that new choice," Harvey declared. "Repentance and repair is not easy work. But it doesn't mean that it can't flow into obvious, pragmatic solutions. It's uncertain and difficult, but it is sacred work."
In a separate speech given in June in Minnesota, Dr. Harvey further stated, "A reparations paradigm can help us identify more clearly, and utterly necessary pathways for responding to our actual racial situation; pathways far more productive, truth-full, and life-giving than any that reconciliation has been able to open up so far."
Dr. Harvey is the author of Whiteness and Morality: Pursuing Racial Justice through Reparations and Sovereignty and a co-editor of Disrupting White Supremacy: White People on What We Need To Do.
My French-Canadian great-grandparents immigrated to New England in the early 1900s to work in the textile mills. Why should their descendants be expected to pay reparations?
I identify as black.
Pay up whitey
But really we don't have to come out and say what it is about.
I’ve always wondered how a person becomes a “professor” at a college. Does it take a Ph.D, Masters, or Bachelor degree in a certain study to teach the same studies as a professor? Serious, I don’t know.
Do these people ever stop whining?
Jenny looks like a boo dagger to me.
How much to I pay? My family came from Germany and Ireland in the 1890’s.
Do I get paid for ethnic discrimination against the Irish?
She looks like Richard Chamberlain morphing into Jason Robards morphing into a barking moonbat butch dyke.
With tenure.
Race.
Race.
Race.
Race.
I’m sick to death of it.
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How much is this poseur willing to fork over for “reparations”?
Incidentally, it should be Democrats paying those reparations: it was the Democrats who were slave owners, it was the Democrats who were the KKK.
And then let's talk about the cost in blood to fight the Civil War to rid the South of slavery...
Consider that one *stolen* s of this moment.
That's...that's Daniel Craig without makeup!
No wonder he was hinting about wanting so many gay scenes in James Bond...
Dr. Harvey should pay us for all the white slaves that disappeared into Africa.
Also when is a black country going to make slavery illegal? Sheesh.
By the way, ever notice that the Left has no problems whatsoever with Blacks actually remaining "chrstian" (if that's what they are)?
What does this lady think welfare and food stamps are. We’ve been paying reparations since LBJ started the “great society”.
Bruce Jenner?
that is a guy.
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