Black Christians : A Resolution Condemning White Supremacy Causes Chaos at the Southern Baptist Convention

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A Resolution Condemning White Supremacy Causes Chaos at the Southern Baptist Convention
At its annual meeting, the evangelical denomination initially declined to consider a statement of its opposition to the alt-right


The Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting turned chaotic in Phoenix this week over a resolution that condemned white supremacy and the alt-right, on Tuesday, leaders initially declined to consider the proposal submitted by a prominent black pastor in Texas, Dwight McKissic, and only changed course after a significant backlash. On Wednesday afternoon, the body passed a revised statement against the alt-right. But the drama over the resolution revealed deep tension lines within a denomination that was explicitly founded to support slavery ...


https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...-convention-alt-right-white-supremacy/530244/


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Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines and his wife, Donna, pray at the denomination's 2017 annual meeting





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JUN 14, 2017


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The Southern Baptist blowup over white supremacy, explained
Racism is hard to condemn, apparently


... McKissic told the Washington Post he was inspired to introduce the proposal partly because he has witnessed SBC members aligning themselves with the hateful movement.

“I saw people identifying themselves as Southern Baptist and members of the alt-right, so this is horrifying to me,” McKissic said; “I wanted the Southern Baptist Convention to make it very clear we have no relationship to them” ...

https://thinkprogress.org/the-southern-baptist-blowup-over-white-supremacy-explained-af5b6f9e80b4



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Jack Jenkins
Senior Religion Reporter at ThinkProgress. Player of harmonica and ukulele. Tips: jjenkins@thinkprogress.org
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Persuasive proof that America is full of racist and selfish people

What millions of Google searches reveal about our national psyche. “Google is a digital truth serum,” Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of Everybody Lies, told me in a recent interview. Stephens-Davidowitz was working on a PhD in economics at Harvard when he became obsessed with Google Trends, a tool that tracks how frequently searches are made in a given area over a given time period.
Continue Reading


https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/819a86...at-america.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_15

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Sean Illing,
Vox.com•June 13, 2017


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Layton police officer resigns after posting racist meme on NAACP leader's Facebook page


At the top it reads "WE WUZ KANGZ!" At the bottom, it states: "NO. YOU WERE [expletive] WASHERS." Swan said the meme "made a mockery of African Americans," adding that he found it to be "racist, despicable, and unbecoming for any law enforcement officer to post on social media." The meme is based off an ancient Egyptian depiction of circumcision ... Continue Reading

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/05d8c4...er-resigns.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_12

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Layton police officer resigns after posting racist meme on NAACP leader's Facebook page



By LUKE RAMSETH | The Salt Lake Tribune
First Published Jun 16 2017 12:21PM • Last Updated Jun 16 2017 08:26 pm


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Study: when it comes to detecting racial inequality, white Christians have a blind spot
They also perceive discrimination against LGBTQ people and immigrants far less than other Americans do

... The idea that certain groups misjudge the amount of discrimination that other groups struggle with is probably not such a shock. But more surprising may well be what’s one of the clearest indicators of perspective on bias in America: faith ...

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/id...dy-white-christians-discrimination-blind-spot


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White evangelical groups disproportionately do not perceive discrimation against immigrants, blacks, or LGBTQ individuals
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Updated by Tara Isabella Burton
on June 23, 2017 11:50 am



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