Posted on 07/05/2009 12:34:49 PM PDT by BGHater
what, no satire tag?
Come on, not everyday do you see, loggerhead in a title not involving a turtle.
LOL!
Wow, what a bunch of jackasses.
Race is SO not an issue in NM grand lodge.
Nor in Michigan. What a bunch of clowns. We party with our brothers. Race is just not an issue. Content of their heart not the color of their skin. Ya I’m a brother.
I wonder how many Skull n Bones are teh Blackz.
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Is it clear from this that the Georgia lodge objects to this particular member because he is black? Or are there other grounds? Is it his “blackness” that is at issue?
There are black lodges in the South.
Are the “black lodges” Black-Only groups?
In the small town where I live in NC. There are 2 separate lodges, one white and one black.
Yes. Blacks only.
I was in a “white” fraternity in college. When we started initiating black members, the black fraternities complained that we were stealing their members. It was made worse when one of our black members was elected school president.
It depends ...in Edmond, Oklahoma, the lodge there once blackballed a friend of mine (who was a white American) because he had a black girlfriend. Next year, another friend of mine (this time an Indian Kenyan ...which is ironic considering what happened the year before) managed to get accepted. The year after that, even after being told that they had become more enlightened (read: less dumb), I decided to approach another lodge. My Indian-Kenyan friend had told me that they had changed, but I couldn’t bring myself to waste time at the particular lodge. I am exceedingly happy where I am.
I was raised in Va no issue. Members of our lodge even visit the Prince Hall lodge in DC
"Most Worshipful Brother F. Ray Jackson, Grand Master of Masons in Georgia, sir:
What about Georgia? When will the Grand Lodge of Georgia accept black Masons as Masons?
When will we overcome the shackles of our own minds and actually live up to the Masonic tenets of the Brotherhood of All Mankind?
When will the rest of the Masonic world stop laughing at what they think of (and rightly so) as the good ol' redneck racist boys down south?
I and countless other Masons in good standing call upon you, the "elected" leader of Masons in Georgia, to stop the racism. Don't hide behind the supposed need for committees and discussions and votes at some Grand Lodge communication five years from now. If you can excommunicate Masons with the stroke of a pen like you and your predecessor Bro. Garner did last year with his edict, you, sir, can recognize Prince Hall Masons with a simple edict as well.
Yeah, many Georgia Masons will be unhappy. Some may even hate you for it. Some may fume and fret and threaten to never attend Blue Lodge again. So what?"
I will tell you, here in Michigan one of the few things we got going for us is that the Okemos lodge has reached out through out the state. We are best friends with the Detroit lodge and we party often. I have a brother who traveles the state. And when he arrives he looks up a lodge. And when he leaves he is a friend and brother. That IS and what is SHOULD be. PERIOD. Ya, I am a Masonic brother.
Loggerheads were iron tools used to heat pitch. Pitch, as in ‘pitch black’. OMG RACIST!!!
I’m starting my own lodge of Free and Accepted General Contractors. We are way better than the plumbers and masons.
I would like to issue the same challenge to the Grand Master of Masons here in South Carolina.
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