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The last week for me has been very exciting. On Monday I got to host Dr. John Perkins at
Bethel. If you don’t know who Dr. Perkins is I recommend you check out the John M Perkins Foundation in Jackson Mississippi. Dr. Perkins is one of the great civil rights leaders and one of Americans leading Christian leaders. I call him an intellectual activist. So I got to spend the day with him at breakfast, chapel and then at luncheon. To hear what he had to say at lunch click here.
Then just last night Erin and I got to speak at a conference in the Twin Cities called Common Root. It is a gathering of 100 Christians asking the question of what does it mean to follow Jesus in the shadow of the American Empire. Our workshop dealt with white privilege. The gathering is mostly white so I figured we would only get about 10 people to the workshop, but to my great surprise we have about 25 of us there, so a ¼ of the group wanted to talk about white privilege, what??? With my work on this issue I found it shocking that that many people would want to engage such a topic and not only did they come but we had a great conversation. It was a conversation that I found very enriching for my own journey. The audio is just the presentation that erin and I gave we did not record the Q and A time because we wanted people to feel free to say whatever they needed to say but I wish I would have because it was during that conversation some very profound and powerful things where said.
One of the things that impacted me came from a wise Pastor. In a loving way I called out my speech about how I talked about white privilege with words like “giving” “receiving” but really I need to use is the language of “taking” “selling” “pillaging” “genocide”. We have created such a cultural myth of the good white person that we really need to get real with ourselves and talk about how this country was really founded and what is currently still happening in this country. I am so thankful for our brothers and sisters of color who are willing to call us out of our privilege and help us embrace a new way of being human. To there the talk click here
