tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37106751.post4162032912077699262..comments2023-06-28T11:56:24.073-04:00Comments on The Lamb's War: Fifty Years Later, Segregation LivesMicah Baleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06849915973708989620noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37106751.post-13903585672564484172012-04-15T06:54:48.991-04:002012-04-15T06:54:48.991-04:00Alas, bigotry, hate and the side effects of lives ...Alas, bigotry, hate and the side effects of lives lived in fear has been rampant all my life. I think that we must come to understand that the seed of this lie within us all. We cannot give our cloak to the homeless and hate and fear the "suits". Sowing seeds of Christ's love to both is the only hope and we must remember that this is Christ's work and war and we are only the workers in the vineyard. I am glad for thy observations, Micah and other F/friends. Until we can shed our self centeredness, I see little hope for real strides toward the goal of Paul's when he wrote: "I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me." We still often remember the name of Paul more than Jesus Christ.F. Chapmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37106751.post-76762290318710550102012-03-26T22:35:16.671-04:002012-03-26T22:35:16.671-04:00Racism is so destructive .... I can look back now ...Racism is so destructive .... I can look back now and see things I did not see or fully understand. Racism is a really really deep deep deep deep deep trench. Racism is torture, and lynching, and prisons filled to the brim with msny who are convicted victims. Maybe guilty as charged... but often given no chance to get elsewhere. People set up from the beginning, by those taking in Racist Pleasure..... And Peri I thank you for saying NO! to the sweeping of it under. Greg WilliamsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37106751.post-89110482863460594292012-03-24T21:18:10.668-04:002012-03-24T21:18:10.668-04:00It is never comfortable to look into our own lives...It is never comfortable to look into our own lives to see what seeds there are of war. Which is why we are encouraged, in Advices and Queries, to make that inspection. Here in Australia our racism has been responsible for the destruction of peoples, cultures, languages... but we sweep it under the edge of the rug, like a fluffball we cannot be bothered to pick up.Perihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12426403535291929228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37106751.post-18478495272965718042012-03-20T21:26:21.451-04:002012-03-20T21:26:21.451-04:00Thanks Star, I appreciate your response. I don...Thanks Star, I appreciate your response. I don't expect many more because Quakers, have a hard time dealing with concerns around Race. (Not writing about everyone) But most Friends Don't, Can't, Won't, are afraid are ashamed to face RACISM... and will never overcome! It leaves me on a "Back Bench" Because it means most Quakers, White Quakers (let me be clear) can't deal with me in Truth! and that is painful for this Black Quaker. But I am notlooking for sympathy.<br />Greg Williams <br /><br />gcw2849@yahoo.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37106751.post-38221534590531222382012-03-17T23:27:16.249-04:002012-03-17T23:27:16.249-04:00Greg Williams is so right. Racism is alive and wel...Greg Williams is so right. Racism is alive and well, not only in Washington DC, but all over the US, and definately within the Religious Society of so-called Friends. There is an entrenched indifference to addressing issues of race among Friends, who would much rather deal with discussing gender, gay, lesbian and transgender issues than talk about their racism. <br /><br />I am always amazed at the number of Friends who try to "educate" me, by saying that "race is an illusion, it's not a scientifically viable idea." Well, race may not be "real," but racism sure is. Boarders aren't real either, yet we still fight over them. And, nation states are imaginary, too.Star Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01491861290425224747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37106751.post-34013360997322465612012-03-16T20:35:21.268-04:002012-03-16T20:35:21.268-04:00Racism is alive and well in the USA. Within our Re...Racism is alive and well in the USA. Within our Religious Society of Friends it is not very sick. Why would you think Segregation would die? Who controls this system? Read the April 4, 1967 speech by King. It is what the Poor People's Campaign was all about, in 1968.. Read "What the Black Man Wants" by Frederick Douglass, delivered in 1865. And let us not compare occupy to the Civil Rights Movement What has Occupy really done?????<br /><br /> Greg WilliamsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37106751.post-57448667042533321692012-03-16T12:48:25.073-04:002012-03-16T12:48:25.073-04:00Furthermore, many of the areas that were predomina...Furthermore, many of the areas that were predominantly black and had modestly priced housing in the old days now are predominantly white and upscale, forcing those of modest or less incomes out. I remember living on Capital Hill in such predominantly black and decidedly not upscale neighborhoods.Bill Samuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00752443575410023776noreply@blogger.com