Please take a moment to read this from my personal and facebook friend Sue DeVito. She will be coming to Senegal for a visit next year and I was just looking at her page - this woman actually puts DEEDS to WORDS and that is RARE in this day in age! Lots of people talk the talk, every day, all the time, but Sue really WALKS the WALK and shes a LOVELY PERSON! THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL RESPONSE to this young woman that she/you dont know but who is obviously hurting. Sue is a white woman and I think its important that we keep in mind that we may attack whitey on these facebook pages but we all know a few individuals, just like her and at the end of the day, were all in this mess together, sink or swim. The best thing to do is the RIGHT THING. Sue, thank you SO MUCH for all your support over the years and I know you had no idea I would do this - I hope you dont mind but its so YOU that I had to share! Your friend, Sineta Dakar, Senegal, West Africa This is what Sue said to a lengthy post that probably we all saw a few weeks ago: It breaks my heart that people in my country still have cause to feel this way. When I was a kid, watching the civil rights movement unfold on TV, I thought surely we would have the insidious evil of racism licked by the time I had grown children. Instead, the system continues to find ways to divide us from each other. On Christmas eve in church, I was reflecting on the life of Jesus. He understood privilege, and the means it uses to oppress the poor and the other. He fought it through non-violent protest and civil disobedience, and with his eloquence. He accused the Pharisees of keeping people down by requiring obedience to picky laws that were never part of Gods loving plan. He allowed his followers to harvest grain on the sabbath because they were hungry and he wanted to demonstrate the silliness of laws that prevent people from getting what they needed. He turned the money-changers tables in the temple because they were making large profits off of poor people who came to worship. He healed a man on the sabbath because he knew that people were more important than rules. He saved a sinful woman from being stoned by reminding her accusers that they were sinful too. He threatened to bring down the status quo with his loving words and his healing deeds, and he was executed for it. So folks, when any of us blame people who are killed by the police for their own death because they were breaking some minor, arbitrary law; or when we complain about protesters who are trying to point out injustice because they block our way to the store, or a sporting event, then its time to check our Christian card, and go back and read those gospels once again. Amen (whether youre religious or not you have to accept this is right!)
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 10:52:11 +0000
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