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Originally posted by blackwatch06
I agree with preachdawg, our churches need to step up and have total community development as a goal. But are churches today really equipped to meet such a challenge? The political evil of racism has become the spiritual evil of self hatred in our community. This self hatred is becomming our collective self identity, and the only way some of our people deal with it is to claim some sort of "non-racial" status, which means nothing because we do not define race for ourselves, the larger society does. And because of it, we as a community have to rethink our spiritual strivings and focus on the community as a source of divine inspiration and movement.
Blackwatch!!!!!!
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The city of Boston has been doing this lately; there's been big cry to get clergy involved in keeping crime down, and in the past month or so prominent relgious leaders in the community have been teaming with the police to find answers.
Whether it's a genuine effort on the Boston Police Dept.'s part or just part of a PR campaign, I'm not entirely sure. We'll see though.