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Featured A Pastoral Letter to White Americans

Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by Zaac, Dec 15, 2014.

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  1. Inspector Javert

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    I never said that YOU did. And a lot of time reason needs to take a back seat with emotion so that we don't deal from a bias. What's reasonable from your perspective may not be so from someone else's experience.

    Fact = a version of the truth based on perspective. Your fact does not have to equal somebody else's fact. i.e the view of racial prejudice and racism from police in this country.

    Truth will always be the same.


    That is what it is. He was still unarmed and people will make a thousand "reasoned" replies for why the officer had to shoot him.

    Are they shooting unarmed white men the same way? Again just looking at some high profile situations and it appears that cops do everything they can to not shoot the white assailants.


    Difficult to apply wrongfully killed as an FBI stat when you've got prosecutors who don't want to prosecute the officers with whom they work everyday. The system is broken and I'm surprised no one has ever mentioned that glaring conflict of interest that bypasses due process.


    What would showing you numbers of wrongful deaths at he hands of police officers prove when prosecutors aren't prosecuting the police officers?

    You don't have to admit there is a problem.

    As I've said repeatedly, white privilege has created an epidemic sized blind spot in the eyes of a lot of white Americans. You don't have to admit that there is a problem for there to be one.

    The genie is out of the bottle and the WORLD sees that there is indeed a problem.
     
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  3. Zaac

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    It may not be true in your Bizarro universe, but it is in this one.

    They are. To suggest not is a lie.
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    Sure you can. Your comment just demonstrated that you can :laugh:

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    That would be TRUTH. For the man who doesn't know it it isn't factual or a part of his reality.

    I'd affirm that his reality is his reality and his version of fact. That doesn't make it the truth.

    Do you?

    Man go on somewhere...you're a waste of typing.

    Next.
     
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  4. Zaac

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    So says part of the problem.
     
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    Delusional to you and your refusing to consider their point of view is part of the problem. I do not mean you have to agree with them, but you refuse to even try to see the situations from their point of view.

    That is a huge part of the problem, neither side will sit and listen and talk with the other. Just shout and accuse.
     
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    There is no other view point. The accusation against the police is a myth created by the far left to stir people up and create problems to further a political agenda. Its not real and I do not believe you think it is. I believe you know it is not and are just willing to push the lie for the same reason.
     
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    :applause: :applause:
     
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    Well I'll be.

    Do you really think this ? If so, is the O/P an example of the sit down and talk, or shout and accuse ?
     
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  10. Zaac

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    The guy probably wrote the letter because he realizes that the average person like you wouldn't be quiet long enough to listen.
     
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    As a matter of face, if you read carefully, you will see this is one thing the author of the article/letter is saying

    Quote: " Loving our neighbors means identifying with their suffering, meeting them in it, and working together to change it."

    As scripture says, "Come let us reason together." Isiah 1:18

    And Jesus said, " first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
    Matthew 7:5
     
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  12. Bro. Curtis

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    Sorry, but a one sided conversation about how white people can get over their inherent racism isn't reasoning together.

    Plank in my eye ?

    Like I said, you cannot reason with hatred.
     
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    Perhaps it is the O/P author, and a few others who need absolution for THEIR sin of racism. I feel sorry for them if they think another human could grant it.
     
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    :applause::applause:
     
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    In fact, the article is blasphemous to the work of Christ on the cross, saying Christ's blood could not cover the sin of racism, and the Holy Spirit can't convict the same. But the O/Per has added to scripture, before.

    Perhaps this should be on a Catholic board ? Absolution granted by humans ? Shame on that.
     
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    I agree and I guess that is why there is so little rational discussion on this BB and such avoidance of facing self.

    Do you agree with Isaiah and Jesus?

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    You got some questions waiting, in your "Indians were nice to each other" thread. I guess you can't see them because of the plank in your eye ?


    Kindly address post #55 for me. Thanx, in advance.
     
    #57 Bro. Curtis, Dec 15, 2014
  18. Crabtownboy

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    Guess you did not read my reply. Your question were totally off the topic and I won't go running down that rabbit trail. If you want to talk about Indians and their wars start a new thread. On the one you mention, speak to the topic please, that being perception others.
     
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  19. Bro. Curtis

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    You claimed Indians were nice to each other. Thats baloney. My question was not off topic.

    Back to the hatred on this thread from you and zaac. So you won't say the Holy Spirit is enough to convict, and the Blood of Christ is enough to forgive ? The only way to forgiveness is to listen to the viewpoint of another race ? Thats what the article claims. Quite on-topic.


    Answer it. Its even rational.
     
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  20. Bro. Curtis

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    I think its time to ask for a statement of faith from Crabtownboy and zaac. My question seems like an easy one for a child of God to answer.
     
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