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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: Blue Jays
If one tells a non-racist person he/she is racist...that person now thinks you are a complete a$$hole who does not know how to correctly identify a person.

That is true only if you have debating skills on the level of Plato. There are many excellent demagogues who use sophistry to prove to you that 2+2=5. If you are not very good with logical fallacies you may fall prey to many of them.

21 posted on 10/16/2014 12:10:40 AM PDT by Greysard
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The victim movement can’t even find one innocent black teen to be a post-partum standard bearer. It does not bode well for the movement. Thinking people struggle to ignore the facts but alas... We cannot.


22 posted on 10/16/2014 12:12:52 AM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: Blue Jays
What happens if you tell someone who is racist but doesnt know it?

Personally, I think Liberals believe there are far too many people like that in the world.

23 posted on 10/16/2014 12:16:37 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Blue Jays

We know it cant be so because very few black kids even HAVE fully functioning parents to talk to them about anything.


24 posted on 10/16/2014 12:17:58 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well, my $0.02:

KMA!

25 posted on 10/16/2014 12:27:59 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It’s Time for Whites to Accept Responsibility for Racist Systems....forfeit their right to self defense and allow black thugs to murder them.
26 posted on 10/16/2014 12:29:31 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Still Thinking

Blacks are living as victims, once we beat segregation it was over. Blacks could have a good culture, but they keep living in the past, playing victims. ***most*** blacks. If they took their struggle as a source of pride and victory, shrugging off slavery and segregation it would be fine.

I don’t care about what happened to my ancestors hundreds of years ago, it was a different time. I’m certainly not going to be “victimized” for wrongs done to them.


27 posted on 10/16/2014 12:32:26 AM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Blue Jays
Someone who calls me a racist qualifies as a stupid. I'm a big fan of gassing all stupids, without regard to race, religion or national origin.

Consider: I grew up in Chicago. I've bought 2 cops, 1 alderman and a traffic court judge. Everyone in Cook County knows that the entire government structure is crooked. They assume everyone else in the country knows this. All the other democrats, nationwide, voted for a Chicago crook. So, what's the big deal? Democrats are either stupid or evil.

These are humanoids who believe in chem trails, black lung from trainloads of coal, global warming, fracking causes earthquakes and that Barak Obama is honest, although he will be the only one from Chicago in the last 150 years.

And yet, they believe in Eugenics, the most compelling justification ever stated for their own destruction.

28 posted on 10/16/2014 12:38:35 AM PDT by jonascord (Laeti vescimur nos subacturis)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Here’s John Derbyshire’s “The Talk: Non-black Version” as it appeared in Taki’s Mag (Derbyshire was fired by National Review for writing this article for a different publication):

http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/print#axzz3GI9gsZPX


29 posted on 10/16/2014 12:44:24 AM PDT by IChing
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KL3j9i8wZA&list=UUkffs7dlQWuM3HKUM4LeMVA&feature=player_embedded


30 posted on 10/16/2014 12:48:09 AM PDT by IChing
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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.

Well, Jim, your white son probably knows better than to rob a convenience store, right...


31 posted on 10/16/2014 12:52:04 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dear Jim,

No.

L


32 posted on 10/16/2014 1:04:40 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wallis is laughable.


33 posted on 10/16/2014 1:13:37 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Folks, do what I do. Accept that thanks to this guy and people like him, the ferals W I L L start their race war. They are outnumbered and out gunned by an order of magnitude even when you include their liberal apologists. Anf their liberal apologists must be included.

When that day comes, the result will be short, quick and brutal, after which these people will be complete persona non gratas in the society that continues from that point onward.

They will be the fuel service workers (think Road Warrior/Thunderdome) in the enclaves they are forced into and treated as slaves by their more Alpha liberal ferals running the places. Black/white or otherwise.

WHEN that finally happens, America will move ahead in a far better environment. Perhaps we can install cameras and sell PPV time of their enclaves to raise money for rebuilding the destruction they wreak in their race war and to fund deprogramming efforts for those of us under 50 that have been propagandized to accept these peoples behavior as American.

But one way or another, they are in fact fomenting genuine racism in an effort to use it against America. And it will ultimately be their downfall. It will then be inherent on civilized people to ensure they do not ever get back up and infiltrate us with their crap ever again.


34 posted on 10/16/2014 1:13:40 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Nailbiter
It is time to retire the Race card!!!!!

It's time for them put the race card where the sun don't shine. I admit I had never heard of this guy Wallis until today, but he looks like another false teacher, possibly a white Jeremiah Wright, though maybe not as nasty as him, but with similar thinking.

35 posted on 10/16/2014 1:20:16 AM PDT by Mark17 (So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hanging on the shed. Altogether now)
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To: Mark17

appears the author is suffreing from white guilt. instead of suffering in silence he will force the rest of us to suffer with him, whether we want to or not.


36 posted on 10/16/2014 1:22:49 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: Nailbiter

If I were a store, you wouldn’t find any white guilt there. Not something I carry.


37 posted on 10/16/2014 1:40:26 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Based on Obama and his administrations view of racism I’m a proud racist.


38 posted on 10/16/2014 2:03:07 AM PDT by maddog55
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To: Molon Labbie
If I were a store, you wouldn’t find any white guilt there. Not something I carry.

You mean I couldn't buy any even if I wanted to? Actually, I downloaded my white guilt absolution form years ago, from Ken Hamblin's web site.

:-)

39 posted on 10/16/2014 2:11:04 AM PDT by Mark17 (So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hanging on the shed. Altogether now)
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To: Captainpaintball

No.


40 posted on 10/16/2014 2:35:01 AM PDT by EEGator
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