In white America, black lives don't matter, never have, and still don't matter in 2017. 350 years of unending oppression must stop now, today. Urgency is the word; no longer business as usual. White Christian persons, white Christian churches, white Christian colleges must give highest priority to repentance, restitution and rebuilding---or repairing the oppression damage that has been done and is currently ravaging black communities across our nation.
To be more specific, I am referring to white generated systems of oppression, such as slavery, segregation, and mass incarceration. In more detail, from slavery to segregation (including economic sharecropping, prison gangs, and lynching) to current racial and class segregation, current racial profiling and mass incarceration, current huge racial wealth gap.
I recommend that Greenville University give priority to three issues:
1. Creating a theology of the kingdom of God that includes a comprehensive biblical analysis of oppression and justice based on both the Old and New Testaments, a theology that releases the oppressed.
2. Adding a Christian Community Development component to the existing social work curriculum.
3. Developing a long term partnership with an existing CCD organization in East St. Louis or St. Louis.
Under theology, GU could think in the following ways:
1. Completing the Wesleyan Revolution: Adding Justice to Love.
2. A Second Reformation: Adding Jubilee Justice to Justification by Grace.
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