And such repentance is ever and only a gift from God, and issues (i.e. results in) or produces works which reflect the same...
And so Bishop Harry Jackson (I believe) is right on in his calling attention to the lack of such repentance (over the years and decades, even centuries presumably) evidenced by white Americans over their mistreatment of their *black compatriots...
Something in point of fact that any serious reader of this and my other (original) blogsite would be only too well aware has been understood and advocated by myself for quite some considerable time.
When I've reflected at times over recent years and decades upon the ongoing invidious plight of Blacks in the States what has especially struck me has been how so many of those who once so vociferously and vehemently (and vigorously) denounced the desegregationalism so powerfully advanced through both legislative enactment and societal changes from the Civil Rights Era on now so almost nonchalantly act as if actual equality as such were such an obvious and unquestionable 'thing'...
...despite many of them having (in decades previous) done their level best to thwart and frustrate and bring to nought any and all such social developments within their nation...
...and in saying so I most certainly do not include the likes of the once notorious segregationist George Wallace, who, it seems to me anyhow, experienced a genuine Road to Damascus experience, unlike so many of his contemporary (especially Republican Party) fellow-travellers.
*And of course other races, such as the Japanese in WW11, but - far more significantly, for obvious reasons - native Americans (American Indians), who experienced virtual genocide in centuries past.
And so Bishop Harry Jackson (I believe) is right on in his calling attention to the lack of such repentance (over the years and decades, even centuries presumably) evidenced by white Americans over their mistreatment of their *black compatriots...
Something in point of fact that any serious reader of this and my other (original) blogsite would be only too well aware has been understood and advocated by myself for quite some considerable time.
When I've reflected at times over recent years and decades upon the ongoing invidious plight of Blacks in the States what has especially struck me has been how so many of those who once so vociferously and vehemently (and vigorously) denounced the desegregationalism so powerfully advanced through both legislative enactment and societal changes from the Civil Rights Era on now so almost nonchalantly act as if actual equality as such were such an obvious and unquestionable 'thing'...
...despite many of them having (in decades previous) done their level best to thwart and frustrate and bring to nought any and all such social developments within their nation...
...and in saying so I most certainly do not include the likes of the once notorious segregationist George Wallace, who, it seems to me anyhow, experienced a genuine Road to Damascus experience, unlike so many of his contemporary (especially Republican Party) fellow-travellers.
*And of course other races, such as the Japanese in WW11, but - far more significantly, for obvious reasons - native Americans (American Indians), who experienced virtual genocide in centuries past.
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