"[Puritans] believed they were carrying forth the legacy of an ancient Anglo-Saxon people from the ancient woods of Germany... the city on the hill that our founding fathers + Puritan + pilgrim forebears intended to build was... a monument to Anglo-Saxon exceptionalism." @DeanKBD
@DeanKBD "We create for them [black Americans] a culture of death."
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"The conditions of poverty" include "inadequate recreational opportunities."
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"We should be surprised when people live, not when they die!"
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"The conditions of poverty" include "inadequate recreational opportunities."
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"We should be surprised when people live, not when they die!"
@DeanKBD "We're here in a church, and we're supposed to talk about we all believe that there's a God, I suppose, and that we're connected to God... that's what spirituality's all about, that connection to something transcendent, something greater than ourselves, right?"
@DeanKBD "The Imago Dei: You wanna know God? You got to know everybody that is reflected in God."
"Kenosis... Empty yourself of the daggone privilege of whiteness."
"Just because you don't happen to look like a white American don't mean you don't act like one."
"Kenosis... Empty yourself of the daggone privilege of whiteness."
"Just because you don't happen to look like a white American don't mean you don't act like one."
@DeanKBD Jesus on the cross "refused to allow anything to be a part of himself that separated himself from the most marginalized in society, the crucified class of the world." He was incarnated in order to "know what we know... understand what we need."
"I invert the Golden Rule."
"I invert the Golden Rule."
@DeanKBD Her version of the Golden Rule: "Do not withhold from another that which you would not want withheld from yourself."
Applications, many:
"Who wants to walk down the street and feel safe?" [hands go up] "Then don't withhold that privilege from another."
Applications, many:
"Who wants to walk down the street and feel safe?" [hands go up] "Then don't withhold that privilege from another."
@DeanKBD Q: Can we swallow the meat but spit out the bones of white churches like Baptists, Pentecostals, Catholics?
A: (too long for one 2:20 video, the wild stuff comes in the next parts)
A: (too long for one 2:20 video, the wild stuff comes in the next parts)
@DeanKBD Part 2: Foucault shoutout!
"You cannot at once be 'white' and Christian. And that means you have to name the ways, you have to call out the demon, you have to name the ways in which you are 'white.'"
"You cannot at once be 'white' and Christian. And that means you have to name the ways, you have to call out the demon, you have to name the ways in which you are 'white.'"
@DeanKBD Part 3: "To be created in the image of a free God means that we are all meant to be free."
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