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For over a century, the central goals of Canada’s Aboriginal policy were to eliminate Aboriginal governments; ignore Aboriginal rights; terminate the Treaties; and, through a process of assimilation, cause Aboriginal peoples to cease to exist as distinct legal, social, cultural, religious, and racial entities in Canada. The establishment and operation of residential schools were a central element of this policy, which can best be described as “cultural genocide.”
Physical genocide is the mass killing of the members of a targeted group, and biological genocide is the destruction of the group’s reproductive capacity. Cultural genocide is the destruction of those structures and practices that allow the group to continue as a group. States that engage in cultural genocide set out to destroy the political and social institutions of the targeted group. Land is seized, and populations are forcibly transferred and their movement is restricted. Languages are banned. Spiritual leaders are persecuted, spiritual practices are forbidden, and objects of spiritual value are confiscated and destroyed. And, most significantly to the issue at hand, families are disrupted to prevent the transmission of cultural values and identity from one generation to the next.
In its dealing with Aboriginal people, Canada did all these things.
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i just want to say
You welcomed me in
to your prayer time
let me sit
were very kind
an hour of that
was all I could take
I shot nine of you
in little time
Forgive me
I shouldn't have pretended
that prayer
mattered to me
All these news reports on racial injustice (and the absurd reactions) are not just disheartening, they can be traumatizing. This is a lot.
— Austin Channing (@austinchanning) March 11, 2015
— Zakiya Naema Jackson (@ZakiyaNaemaJack) April 30, 2015
I'm just at point where I don't want to further traumatize myself by watching them, so I don't. https://t.co/6lBa72ALAJ
— Question Everything (@SankofaBrown) May 14, 2015
Cone’s statement that “God is black” has always been grounded in Jesus’ Jewishness and the biblical narrative which presents God as being in solidarity with the oppressed. As he has clarified on numerous occasions, it is a symbolic statement and not a statement of biology or literal skin color. At the same time Christianity has said “God is white”—in deeds if not in exact words—for the past 500 years. That some hear God’s blackness as a zero-sum statement is a mistake.
In an interview this past January, Cone told HuffPo’s Paul Rauschenbush:
“God is red. God is brown. God is yellow. God is gay…I don’t use blackness as a way to exclude anyone.”
"Why James H. Cone's Liberation Theology Matters More Than Ever"by Daniel José Camacho, including a quote by James Cone.
This is why we must present a Queer, Female, Christ of color.
— Theology of Ferguson (@FaithInFerguson) May 11, 2015
I need folks to stop using the words of MLK as a weapon to police the behavior of black folks, knowing you've never read one of his books.
— Austin Channing (@austinchanning) April 29, 2015
...the Last Supper is a profoundly deep and powerful psychological intervention.
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The Last Supper becomes a profoundly subversive political event in the lives of the participants. The sacrament brings real people - divided in the larger world - into a sweaty, intimate, flesh-and-blood embrace where "there shall be no difference between them and the rest."
(p. 114)
They posted an ad which did not mention that they are aboriginal.And so now, they give a heads up in their ad so that their time isn't wasted.
Someone responded positively by telephone.
They went to look at the room.
When the landlord saw them, the room was suddenly no longer available.
Wrecking every category he had, Jesus tells the religious leader to learn from the weeping prostitute, not the other way around.
— Tullian Tchividjian (@PastorTullian) March 10, 2015
... These two instinctive processes [differentiating kin from non-kin, and extending '"kindness" toward our "kin"'] create what Singer calls our moral circle. That is, we psychologically draw a circle around a group of people whom we identify as "my kind," "my tribe," "my clan," "my family." This circle is initially populated with family members, but as we grow the circle includes more and more non-biological relations, "friends" who are "like family to us."
... In Kantian language, people inside the moral circle are treated as ends in themselves while people on the outside of the moral circle are treated as means to our ends. We treat those inside the moral circle with love, affection, and mercy, and those outside the moral circle with indifference, hostility, or pragmatism. And all of this flows naturally from a simple psychological mechanism: Are you identified as "family"?
Richard Beck, Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality(pp. 100-101)
@apdegrado @michaeljkimpan yes - an #evanjellyfish has more arms to embrace others and welcome them to the table.
— Rob Goetze (@RobGoetze) March 2, 2015
an accusation i don't think i mind - might even embrace. what about you? what makes *you* an #evanjellyfish? http://t.co/zVdnQXHPkb
— michael j. kimpan (@michaeljkimpan) March 2, 2015
She's looking for love in all the wrong places.I've been wondering whether these phrases actually function as ways of dismissing someone. If someone is looking for love in all the wrong places, well then, poor guy, he just needs to learn to look in the right places. Or the attention-seeking woman needs to stop focusing on herself, and focus on others for a change.
There's that attention-seeking behaviour again!
i just want to say
Fully restrained
handcuffs behind her back, leg shackles, mask
bad girl wouldn't bend her knees for the chair
I tasered her four times with my buddies watching
she had a heart attack
was resuscitated
and died
six days later
Forgive me
even for a black person
a life of mental illness
is just not worth living
poem by rob g