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Tag Archives: “America’s Original Sin”
“I Just Don’t see Color” (On White Privilege – 1)
I’m taking an unusual step – re-publishing two posts at the same time. This one is from February, 2017. It describes my journey in uncovering the the stain of white privilege and the horror of the assumptions, openly shared or … Continue reading
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Tagged "America's Original Sin", Jim Wallis, Racism, white privilege
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What is “White Privilege?”
In the recent film, Hidden Figures, Katharine (played by Octavia Spencer), a black woman who is in informally in charge of the “black computer group,” has been repeatedly denied promotion to supervisor by her white boss, Vivian. In my favorite scene in … Continue reading
Posted in To Act Justly
Tagged "America's Original Sin", Jim Wallis, Racism, white privilege
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