REI (Racial Equity Initiative) member, Judith Baker shares two stories of the racism she witnessed in her life, growing up in Augusta, Georgia.
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This Lent we have been hearing a different story than the one we have known, a lot of hard truth about the White-centered narrative that we don’t even realized shapes our views and our actions. In our Lent of Liberation devotional, conversations and sermons, we’ve wrestled with the past and present injustices perpetrated against black Americans. This sermon takes a look at German theologian and pastor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who gained a new perspective through the eyes of a black church and experience in Nazi Germany.
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White supremacy isn’t just those people who belong to the KKK, or say racial slurs, or outright say and believe that white people are superior… White supremacy is the centering of white people: our stories, our feelings, our perspectives, our well-being, our image, they all are the norm, the center, the measure. If Jesus is on the margins, and white supremacy creates and perpetuates the margins, then white supremacy separates me not only from my neighbor, but also from God.
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