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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Marshall,</p><p class=MsoNormal>Many colleagues have sent words of wisdom.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I would add only one piece of founder’s wisdom – from George Fox, Quaker, aka Religious Society of Friends.</p><p class=MsoNormal>“recognize that of God in every person” and if that is not hard enough “Go cheerfully through the world, recognizing that of God in every person.”</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Obviously the rub is when every or any person does not mirror an aspect of God we admire or want to see!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Grace, Peace, Love and Light</p><p class=MsoNormal>Mary hampton </p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">W. J. via OE</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, September 25, 2017 10:19 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:synergi@yahoo.com">W. J.</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[Oe List ...] conversation on white trash racism</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Last night I was stunned to overhear my next-door neighbors sitting on their front porch and loudly spewing forth their toxic honky racist shit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_126297"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>This was in the wake of Trump's Alabama comments that stirred up a lot of racist indignation that <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_154186">denied there was anything 'racial' involved in protesting against racism</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_34053"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>It was not just the nasty content, but more the tone of their comments and their South Carolina accents that were just so offensive to have to overhear. I closed my window, but that didn't stop their conversation from seeping into my living room like sewage in a Texas flood.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_34222"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Among their themes:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_34259"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>1. They're still fighting their version of the Civil War, which was not about slavery, since "poor white folks had to pick cotton too".<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_34314"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>2. They still hate Martin Luther King, Jr. and resent the fact that everywhere they go, there has to be a 'Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard' in town.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_34351"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>3. Their sense of white entitlement allows them to consider themselves 'better than' black people or more 'civilized'.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_34719"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>4. Their cultural values--including their racism--are considered normative. Thus their racist biases are invisible to them.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_34720"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>5. Other racial groups are considered intruders (unless they are 'silent' and subservient and don't 'rock the boat' of white superiority).<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_34672"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>6. Genocide is implicitly OK--especially if it can be justified under 'war' conditions. There was a story about Marines wiping out one quarter million Muslims on an island. That was a good way to 'fix <i>that</i> problem'. Other racial/ethnic/religious groups are considered subhuman and can be treated accordingly.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_34764"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>I could go on, but my point is that I just don't <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_34913">like</i> these neighbors. Fortunately, they're not around that often. And since they're old, they will soon die off, taking their racist prejudices with them. They are shrinking minority desperately holding out against cultural change.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_34865"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>But they--and millions like them--elected Donald Trump. So we have to deal with a white racist cultural backlash with global implications.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_34972"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>So here I am, surrounded by Trump voters like Davey Crockett at the Alamo (yes, I'm aware of the <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/remember-alamo-differently/">racist imagery</a> here). And even if these folks never say another word, they still <i>think</i> like racist '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_trash">poor white trash</a>' who had to compete with other economically disadvantaged groups.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_200820"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>I realize that I benefit enormously from 'white male privilege'--including the advantages of a perspective informed by global experience, advanced education, a multicultural context, and a determination to examine and confront my own implicit/unconscious assumptions of white racist privileging.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_115229"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>I'd like to begin a conversation that will explore how to survive and thrive and even support cultural change/transformation in this context--without getting pot shots aimed at my living room.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_227428"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Marshall Jones<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_112226"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_112005"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_60175"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_60221"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_34951"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506346700085_34674"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>