Comments on: Where Are We Going? Backwards or Forward? http://boggsblog.org/2008/05/05/where-are-we-going-backwards-or-forward/ a project of the James & Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:05:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Will http://boggsblog.org/2008/05/05/where-are-we-going-backwards-or-forward/#comment-65 Sun, 18 May 2008 21:52:59 +0000 http://conversationsthatyouwillneverfinish.wordpress.com/?p=39#comment-65 One thing that Rev. Jeremiah Wright said on his appearance with Bill Moyers is that:
on the slave ship you had the slave holders on the top of the boat praying for the success of their venture, and in the deck of the boat you had thousands of Black men and women praying that the boat would crash ashore, turn around, run aground, etc. It is a significant theological question: which God is real? or Where is God in this picture?

Of course, the slave masters would say the slaves were “not patriotic enough” if they knew a fraction of their true aims. The Rev. Wright points out that it is a political struggle as well as a question of cultural and religious orientation.

The culture and religion helps define who people will identify with and who we will see as “other” or “foreign.”

]]> By: sebbi http://boggsblog.org/2008/05/05/where-are-we-going-backwards-or-forward/#comment-62 Fri, 09 May 2008 12:23:52 +0000 http://conversationsthatyouwillneverfinish.wordpress.com/?p=39#comment-62 amazing analysis

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