Cincy Man Sentenced to Church for Threats and Slurs

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by WenD08
well, since i've been summoned, i'll chime in on this:

i have to agree w/CT4 on the "combo platter" approach. i see where the judge was going but church visitation isn't enough.
next, why that particular church? no offense to any JWs who may be reading, but i can think of lots of other churches he should've attended: mine (Lincoln Heights MB), New Jerusalem BC under Rev. Damon Lynch, Jr., a well-respected minister in town, and others. i do think other pastors in town would have engaged him in dialogue and perhaps kept his racial "education" going.

Thanks for agreeing with me WenD and Eclipse.

WenD, that would be a better alternative. Have the perpetrator attend church with his victim and publicly apologize. Also have some dialogue with a small group consisting of the pastor and deacons and a few other church leaders, men and women. Don't just send him to church. I can go to church and not hear one word, note of a song, etc. Make him do a report. Take him to the Black History museum. Show him Roots.

[DC_Zeta1920]

I didn't hear about this at all. This is very unfortunate and the sentence really wasn't enough. I just don't think him attending a black church for 6 weeks will "rehabilitate" him. Anyone can go to church and not hear the word at all.

Cincinnati is interesting. I discussed it in another thread over on Alpha Ave a while back. Since I have only lived in DC and Cincy, I just found Cincy as a complete opposite of what I'm used to here. But racism is everywhere, heck its here in DC. The way in which people purport it varies.

[cinammonkisses]

Originally posted by ladylike


Cincinnati is such an "interesting" city---it was the first place where I saw a burned cross on someone's lawn (and this was in the late '90s).

Oh goodness don't get me started on that. Last week a rural african american family got a chemical bomb put in their mailbox!

I swear, living in Cincinnati, it's like a different world I'm so happy we got Mark Mallory as our mayor. He will definately bring some much needed change to the city.