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From Symbol to Substance

Cornel West on Obama as President-Elect.
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The New Monastics and Mosaic Leadership

A brilliant and truth-filled post by Gabriel Salguero as part of the conversation about New Monastics and Race at God’s Politics blog.
 The New Monastics and Mosaic Leadership: Otra Voz by Gabriel Salguero
A Historical-Contextual Perspective: This is no small point. Often in the public presentations, books, and conferences of these aforementioned movements, they are presented [...]

New Monasticism and White Privilege

This is a post I wrote for God’s Politics blog as my contribution to the current conversation on Racial Reconciliation Challenge to New Monasticism initiated by Jason and Vonetta Storbakken from Radical Living Community in NYC. 
What I wrote may sting a bit, this kind of stuff always do. So I am expecting some heat to come [...]

… that one day

[HT- Bob Carlton}

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Owning the table - need for new concepts and metaphors

I’ve been fortunate to facilitate and participate in diversity workshops and anti-racism training in which people have been brutally honest. There have been tears, strong words have been exchanged and people have asked for forgiveness and help to overcome their racism.  This kind of openness does not happen easily at these kind of workshops and [...]

From Little Things Big Thing Grow

This powerful video is about the official Australian Government apology to the Aboriginal People early this year. Thanks to my friend Jarrod McKenna for posting yesterday at God’s Politics blog.
 

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Economic Exploitation

Many white americans of good will never have connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice, but tolerated or ignored economic injustice. But the Negro knows that these two evils have a malignant kinship.
Dr. Martin Luther King

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St. Martin Luther King

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NPR : Redefining What It Means to Be Black in America

NPR : Redefining What It Means to Be Black in America

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San Diego fires + harassment

From Jason Evans at The Ecclesia Collective
Friends,
As many of you know, many of us in our community have been feeding the volunteers collecting donations at the Chicano Park donation drop point.
Yesterday, our group of primarily gringos experienced some resistance to serving the primarily Latino volunteers. We came to find out that earlier in the day, [...]

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