***Trigger Warning***
Past Listen - Sincerely, Lettie podcast: “The Jim Crow Series: Racial Terror, Violence, & Lynching (Part 1)” (Released Nov. 20, 2019)
“The Equal Justice Initiative has documented 4,084 racial terror lynchings in twelve Southern states between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and 1950. This is at least 800 more lynchings in these states than EJI had previously reported. And then there were also more than 300 racial terror lynchings in other states during this same period. Important also to understand and know is it wasn’t just the South. So get this image of, ‘It’s only the South and only the Southern states who did these horrible things to people’ - no, it was also the North. Jim Crow, the Jim Crow era, was not just subjugated to the South. And then prior to the Jim Crow era, it wasn’t just the Southern states who were figuring out how to continue for black people to just be inferior to white people...It was the entire country that was working against black people.”
“So, in summation, black Americans were victims of racial terror by lynching because there were black people in America trying to live. Sounds kind of familiar to today, doesn’t it? Yes it does. Which is also why whenever we think of lynching, it is so important to not just think of a body hanging from a pole or a body hanging from a tree. Yes, it is that. Also, lynchings are necessary to be seen through the lens of racial terror. So, example: Emmett Till. You know the story of Emmett Till. a 14-year-old boy beaten to death, tortured, murdered, lynched. And no, his body was not hung, but what happened to him was a racial terror lynching.”
“Like I said in the beginning, you have to set the scene and have historical context leading up to understanding this stuff, so let’s go back to why the Civil War started. So eleven Southern states seceded from the Union, and they formed the Confederate States of America, and this is why the Civil War happened in 1861. They didn’t hide their ultimate aim, which was to preserve the institution of slavery. People want to argue that that’s not why it happened, but it absolutely is. Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens said that the ideological cornerstone of the new nation they sought to form was that the Negro is not equal to the white man and slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. So there you have it. Slavery is why the Civil War happened. The end. Period. Moving on.”
“Beginning as these social clubs of former Confederate soldiers, we see groups like the KKK emerge and other vigilante groups.”
Please listen to this episode and the entire Jim Crow series.
Please listen to this episode and the entire Jim Crow series.
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Account to Follow - Jan. 15, 2020
Account to Follow - Jan. 15, 2020
If you click on the linktree link for Check Your Privilege, you will see that “Check Your Privilege is a guided journey that deepens your awareness to how your actions effect the mental health of Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPoC). Antiracism Ed. + Action Guided by @iammyishat.” The links include Saturday Skool sign up, a link for the book of the Month (UnCommon Bonds: Women Reflect on Race and Friendship), PayPal support, information on joining the Co-Conspirator’s Lounge as a monthly supporter, the Check Your Privilege blog, the Co-Conspired Conversations podcast, and a link to donate to the therapy fund for women of color through Brown Sisters Speak.
Follow @ckyourprivilege if you aren’t already, and financially support the work of @iammyishat.
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Additional Rec. - Jan. 16, 2020
Additional Rec. - “Of Sh*tholes and Section 8: A Response to Rod Dreher” by Jemar Tisby
“Before he gets out of the first paragraph, Dreher calls me a ‘dishonest liberal’ and ‘obnoxious.’ Yet Dreher never posts a link to my original comments on Twitter. He does not even give his readers the chance to read for themselves what I wrote. Don’t miss the fact that Dreher immediately labels me a ‘liberal.’ In many Christian circles, when you call a person or viewpoint ‘liberal’ that usually means they are ‘unbiblical’ and, therefore, not credible...Dreher likely calls me a liberal because I talk about racism and systemic injustice. He makes his opinion about these topics clear when in the final paragraph he calls me a ‘professional race-baiter.’ It is an easy and oft-used tactic to claim that someone who talks about race is a ‘race-baiter.’ But, as has often been said, saying that it’s raining doesn’t mean you caused it to rain. I point out racial issues because they exist. They affect me and our entire nation daily. To turn a (color)blind eye to racism is to fundamentally misunderstand the way our society has been (dis)ordered.”
“It is insulting to say ‘nobody would consider it good news’ if poor people—i.e. those living in Section 8 housing—were to move near an affluent neighborhood. This statement ‘otherizes’ an entire group of people based on their income level. Lost in Dreher’s comments is any sense of humanity, diversity, or individuality among the poor. These human beings become a superficial ‘they’ who all share the same negative characteristics. People in poverty are simply bundled and rejected as undesirables.”
"Throughout U.S. history, those who had economic, political and social power made deliberate decisions that kept people, usually racial and ethnic minorities, in poverty. We could speak of the practice of redlining where the federal government passed down regulations encouraging realtors not to sell houses in affluent areas to African Americans and other people of color… Before that sharecropping kept black people in a cycle of poverty. Sharecroppers would cultivate a ‘share’ of farmland owned by wealthy farmer, typically a former slaveowner... Mysteriously, the sharecroppers would almost never produce enough crops to clear their debt and, in fact, might owe even more money after the harvest than before. These unjust economic practices bound sharecroppers to a plantation as surely as the chains of slavery. Slavery was not that long ago. Just over 150 years ago, not only were black people forbidden from owning property, they were actually considered property.”
“According to a 2015 study, the average white household had 16 times the wealth of the average black household. Is this because white people are really just that good with money and black people are that bad? No. It’s because real estate makes up the single largest share of household wealth. For generations blacks were excluded from a fair housing market and the result is a massive chasm of inequality.”
In this article, Jemar Tisby communicates the truth in love. He ends by writing,”I commend this post and its readers to the Lord and pray for wisdom, grace, and generosity toward people in any form of poverty.”
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Book Rec. - Jan. 18, 2020
Past Read- Half the Church: Recapturing God’s Global Vision for Women by Carolyn Custis James
“Focus on the wife as her husband's helper has led to the belief that God gave primary roles and responsibilities to men, and secondary, supporting roles to women. It has led to practices that communicate that women are second class citizens at home and in the church. None of this is true. There is nothing second class about God's vision for his daughters, and ezer holds the clues. For starters, kenegdo needs rehabilitating. ‘Suitable’ can be taken a lot of different ways that don't do justice to the meaning of this word. Kenegdo indicates the ezer is the man's match - literally, ‘as in front of him’) - as Ying is to Yang. I love how Victor Hamilton puts it: ‘[Kenegdo] suggests that what God creates for Adam will correspond to him. Thus the new creation will be neither a superior nor an inferior, but an equal.’...Long before I started digging, scholars tallied up the twenty-one times ezer appears in the Old Testament: twice in Genesis for the woman (Genesis 2:18, 20), three times for nations to whom Israel appealed for military aid (Isaiah 30:5; Ezekiel 12:14; Daniel 11:34), and here's the kicker - sixteen times for God as Israel's helper (Exodus 18:4; Deuteronomy 33:7, 26, 29; Psalms 20:2; 33:20; 70:5; 89:19 [translated strength in the NIV]; 115:9, 10, 11; 121:1-2; 124:8; 146:5; Hosea 13:9). This last piece of information created quite a stir as you might imagine, prompting the upgrading from mere ‘helper’ to ‘strong helper.’ What followed was a divided (and at times heated) discussion over the meaning of ‘strong’ - How strong is strong (a debate yet to be resolved)?...Putting the facts together, isn't it obvious that the ezer is a warrior? And don't we already know this in our bones? God created his daughters to be ezer-warriors with our brothers...Of course, the strength God brings as ezer to his people should be sufficient to convince us that as ezers we must be strong, resourceful, alert to the cries of the needy and oppressed, and proactive too. Support for the ezer-warrior comes from other Bible passages that use military language for women. Both Ruth and the Proverbs 31 woman are called women of valor (hayil). Paul rallies believers, both men and women, to ‘put on all of God's armor’ (Ephesians 6:10-17) in preparation to do battle with the Evil One, reminding us that our battle is’"not...against flesh-and-blood enemies’ (Ephesians 6:12)...Descriptions of the woman as dependent, needy, vulnerable, deferential, helpless, leaderless, or weak are - to put it simply - wrong. Such definitions betray cultural biases and I fear a deep-seated misogyny. The ezer is a warrior. Like the man, she is also God's creative masterpiece - a work of genius and a marvel to behold - for she is fearfully and wonderfully made. The ezer never sheds her image-bearer identity. Not here. Not ever. God defines who she is and how she is to live in his world. That never changes. The image-bearer responsibilities to reflect God to the world and to rule and subdue on his behalf still rest on her shoulders too. God didn't create the woman to bring half of herself to his global commission or to minimize herself when the man is around. The fanfare over her is overblown if God was only planning for her to do for the man things he was perfectly capable of doing for himself or didn't even need. The man won't starve without her. In the garden, he really doesn't need someone to do laundry, pick up after him, or manage his home. If Adam must think, decide, protect, and provide for the woman, she actually becomes a burden on him - not much help when you think about it. The kind of help the man needs demands full deployment of her strength, her gifts, and the best she has to offer. His life will change for the better because of what she contributes to his life. Together they will daily prove in countless and surprising ways that two are always better than one” (James, 2010, pp.111-115).
There was so much I loved in Half the Church. Carolyn Custis James helped deepen my understanding of numerous passages and doctrines. It is a book that I am interested in reading again. Have you read this book? What did you think?
#pastread #halfthechurch #bookrecommendation #bookrec #carolyncustisjames #feminism #feminist #jesusfeminist #whitefeminismisnotfeminism #antisexism #antisexist #church #injustice #reading #learning #empathy #equality #reflection #action #seekjustice #restorativejustice #lovemercy #walkhumbly #lament #repent #repair #loveyourneighbor #tellthetruth #challengethenarrative #broadeningthenarrative
“Focus on the wife as her husband's helper has led to the belief that God gave primary roles and responsibilities to men, and secondary, supporting roles to women. It has led to practices that communicate that women are second class citizens at home and in the church. None of this is true. There is nothing second class about God's vision for his daughters, and ezer holds the clues. For starters, kenegdo needs rehabilitating. ‘Suitable’ can be taken a lot of different ways that don't do justice to the meaning of this word. Kenegdo indicates the ezer is the man's match - literally, ‘as in front of him’) - as Ying is to Yang. I love how Victor Hamilton puts it: ‘[Kenegdo] suggests that what God creates for Adam will correspond to him. Thus the new creation will be neither a superior nor an inferior, but an equal.’...Long before I started digging, scholars tallied up the twenty-one times ezer appears in the Old Testament: twice in Genesis for the woman (Genesis 2:18, 20), three times for nations to whom Israel appealed for military aid (Isaiah 30:5; Ezekiel 12:14; Daniel 11:34), and here's the kicker - sixteen times for God as Israel's helper (Exodus 18:4; Deuteronomy 33:7, 26, 29; Psalms 20:2; 33:20; 70:5; 89:19 [translated strength in the NIV]; 115:9, 10, 11; 121:1-2; 124:8; 146:5; Hosea 13:9). This last piece of information created quite a stir as you might imagine, prompting the upgrading from mere ‘helper’ to ‘strong helper.’ What followed was a divided (and at times heated) discussion over the meaning of ‘strong’ - How strong is strong (a debate yet to be resolved)?...Putting the facts together, isn't it obvious that the ezer is a warrior? And don't we already know this in our bones? God created his daughters to be ezer-warriors with our brothers...Of course, the strength God brings as ezer to his people should be sufficient to convince us that as ezers we must be strong, resourceful, alert to the cries of the needy and oppressed, and proactive too. Support for the ezer-warrior comes from other Bible passages that use military language for women. Both Ruth and the Proverbs 31 woman are called women of valor (hayil). Paul rallies believers, both men and women, to ‘put on all of God's armor’ (Ephesians 6:10-17) in preparation to do battle with the Evil One, reminding us that our battle is’"not...against flesh-and-blood enemies’ (Ephesians 6:12)...Descriptions of the woman as dependent, needy, vulnerable, deferential, helpless, leaderless, or weak are - to put it simply - wrong. Such definitions betray cultural biases and I fear a deep-seated misogyny. The ezer is a warrior. Like the man, she is also God's creative masterpiece - a work of genius and a marvel to behold - for she is fearfully and wonderfully made. The ezer never sheds her image-bearer identity. Not here. Not ever. God defines who she is and how she is to live in his world. That never changes. The image-bearer responsibilities to reflect God to the world and to rule and subdue on his behalf still rest on her shoulders too. God didn't create the woman to bring half of herself to his global commission or to minimize herself when the man is around. The fanfare over her is overblown if God was only planning for her to do for the man things he was perfectly capable of doing for himself or didn't even need. The man won't starve without her. In the garden, he really doesn't need someone to do laundry, pick up after him, or manage his home. If Adam must think, decide, protect, and provide for the woman, she actually becomes a burden on him - not much help when you think about it. The kind of help the man needs demands full deployment of her strength, her gifts, and the best she has to offer. His life will change for the better because of what she contributes to his life. Together they will daily prove in countless and surprising ways that two are always better than one” (James, 2010, pp.111-115).
There was so much I loved in Half the Church. Carolyn Custis James helped deepen my understanding of numerous passages and doctrines. It is a book that I am interested in reading again. Have you read this book? What did you think?
#pastread #halfthechurch #bookrecommendation #bookrec #carolyncustisjames #feminism #feminist #jesusfeminist #whitefeminismisnotfeminism #antisexism #antisexist #church #injustice #reading #learning #empathy #equality #reflection #action #seekjustice #restorativejustice #lovemercy #walkhumbly #lament #repent #repair #loveyourneighbor #tellthetruth #challengethenarrative #broadeningthenarrative
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