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.
It amazes me that parents actually pay to have their kids sit in its class and listen to it.
I was thinking the same thing.
I’m done with trying to understand this attitude and the people who think the way she does.
So, my answer to this demand is simple, NO.
BTW, my dad got a legitimate doctorate from a legitimate university, and was a Professor Emeritus.
Americans already have paid trillions in “reparations” to blacks. It’s known as welfare and decades of racial preferences.
Whites of today had nothing to do with Dem party slavery nor with Dem party segregation and don’t owe Blacks anything. Blacks owe whites for their racially targeted crime and hate during the post segregation era.
I give at church and every pay day. Enough.
She teaches at Drake...still teaches? I always thought Drake was a good school. Seriously. With professors like this wench, graduates must know less than they brought to matriculation.
I agree, with a few conditions:
1) Each reparation recipient will receive a minimum of $50,000.
2) Upon receipt of reparations, all entitlement payments the individual may have received during their life must be repaid in full.
3) Each person accepting a reparations payment must be repatriated to their ancestral home country and surrender their US citizenship.
No, that’s a woman, and she always will be.
Office Location: 216 Medbury Hall
515-271-2885
jennifer.harvey@drake.edu
Christian. Sorry for the typo.
Gee, in the 1600s, the Church of England and Roman Catholics burned my ancestor at the stake for heresy, thereby ruining his family’s economic status. We’ve struggled to get by for centuries because of it. (sarc) I think I want reparations. Gimmee gimmee gimmee.
How stupid ARE America’s blacks? Wait... don’t tell me...
So do non-Christian whites need to pay reparations?
Black racism must be denounced—its getting as bad the KKK of old—worse. The KKK never wanted to kill all black people—some of these blacks today would like to see all of Whitie Dead.
Amazing. People that were never slaves, that have a better standard of living than almost all of mankind before them, with their iPhones, cars, fancy clothes, full stomach, roof over their heads, the right to vote, the opportunity to work hard and become weathly...yet whine like they’re oppressed slaves and want people that were never slave owners to pay even more toward their “free stuff”.
This is nothing but brazen racism. Our weak leadership is allowing it. Obama is such a disaster, he’s going to leave his mark for decades.
is this person shown below, a relative of yours?
It's called welfare and food stamps.
Come and take your reparations.
That’s a man. Has to be.
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