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Old 03-10-2002, 11:34 PM
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Originally posted by librasoul22
Playing devil's advocate here...

She seems like someone who is interesting in preserving and fostering some sense of African-American tradition and whatnot. Maybe she is planning to get in there and shake things up a bit. Maybe she is gonna be some radical revolutionary who brings definitive changes to the Daughters of the Confederation...

Or maybe she is just disillusioned...

That's why I hate to hear (or in her case, see) people use the Lord's name inappropriately. She mentions the "love thy neighbor" but she seems to have forgotten that Jesus Christ was a radical, he shaked things up both religiously ands socially. At no point does she mention how effective (as we all know) this type of living was to affecting REAL change.

IMHO, I think she's making "Black" less threatening. Like, she has be the high-holy example that we can be "civilized" and can "belong".

I would have liked for her to have made it clear that she wasn't joining, "just because", but, if she is the first A-A, that she will make a real difference in that org.

Then again, I can't see what a Black person ever gained from the Confederacy before, and I don't know what we could gain now.

But, I guess people just love to be invited to anything....
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