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Still processing the race issues that have (of necessity) broken out into the open. This brings up all kinds of stuff for a Southern woman who witnessed the "genteel racism" of the Civil Rights era.
My parents made a conscious effort to raise us without the racist attitudes they were brought up with.
But we kids saw how the other grown-ups acted. We heard things. And those words won't stop echoing in my memory today.
But we kids saw how the other grown-ups acted. We heard things. And those words won't stop echoing in my memory today.
Trouble is, it's not 1964 any more, and some of those attitudes are still around. I'm also trying in my ministry to coax people out of a mindset they don't believe they have without triggering a defensive wall that could entrench them even further in the sin of racism.
From the Catechism... #1869 "..sin makes men accomplices of one another and causes concupiscence, violence, and injustice to reign among them. Sins give rise to social situations and institutions that are contrary to the divine goodness."
"'Structures of sin' are the expression and effect of personal sins. They lead their victims to do evil in their turn. In an analogous sense, they constitute a 'social sin'." (CCC #1869)
There's so much I want to say and write, but Twitter is definitely not the medium for it. And I am afraid that our "cancel culture" does not allow for the nuance that is necessary if people are to be allowed to take one step at a time out of a poisonous mentality.
All this to ask you to please pray to the Holy Spirit for the gift of Wisdom (!) to sanctify my mind and conform it to the mind of Christ so that he can make his Gospel shine more brightly through me (and all my sisters).
Thanks.
Thanks.
