1/ Since reparations is back in the news and the House is taking it forward, I want to get some thoughts in that I think are foundational. Let’s begin with the difference between race-based policies and reparations. google.com/amp/s/thehill.com…
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2/ Race-based policies are important but of themselves they treat symptom & not cause. This can’t just be about financial restitution; it also has to be about healing the spiritual malfunction that led to the problem (slavery) and continues to re-create it (police brutality etc).
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3/A politics that only treats symptoms is like allopathic medicine; it eradicates a symptom but the symptom in time can morph into another one. So psychological and emotional elements are equal in importance to the financial measures required for genuine reparation. Both matter.
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4/ Real reparations, an integrative holistic 21st-century approach, means full acknowledgment of an evil that occurred, a damage that was done to one people by another and the willingness of the former to compensate for that damage.
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5/ The issue is to not just acknowledge the inequity, the systemic racism that causes such a gap in opportunity between blacks and whites. The issue is to also acknowledge where the gap came from...
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6/ ... give credit to our ancestors both black and white who have tried to close that gap, and take full responsibility for the ways in which we’ve not only allowed the gap to continue but have even in many ways widened it in our time.
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8/ It’s the task of our generation to pull it out by the roots from the psyche of this nation. Much of the work is external but much of it is internal too. We need a deeper healing than policy changes alone can provide. With sincerity, willingness and God’s help we can achieve it
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