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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2020
- In our community as Jehovah’s Witnesses we never really talk about the quiet injustice of racism. We feel it but we don’t vocalize it. Friends quietly suffer not really putting a finger on what’s happening to them because “Racism” is felt on a personal level. Not everyone around you see’s it. Individuals feel it and it can be cloaked, it just doesn’t always come out and slap you.
It’s our nature to have biased. The color of our skin has no bearing on what’s in our heart.
No religion has ever been able to obliterate racism. I feel in some ways it’s only made it worse. Putting on a suit and a beautiful dress doesn’t take racism away from a country , nation, community. It still lurks in the heart and constantly and consistently needs weeding out.
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Hi and thanks. Hope you have found a community of friends where you exist in harmony. Better out than in, judgement, fear and guilt are no way to live. Real truth is already inside us.
LOVE IT and community takes time, trying to find my people still. Yes 🙌 it is inside me, again trying to find out who I am.
I grew up as a minority in the hall/halls I attended, I was reminded all the time that I was unlike the rest. It was mostly hidden in humor. But as a witness you have to be forgiving and take it. For some reason the aggressor’s are joking told to lay off if ever.
When I moved to different congregations I saw the disparities of white and people of color. Sad no one talks about it with freeness of speech inside the congregations. Communicating their feelings of disparity without the fear of being told they aren’t complying with program by just bringing it up.
Great Job Thanks
So grateful ☺️ it’s still up. I’m hoping you’re healing ❤️🩹 and thriving!!!!
...This talk was the very meaning of what True Christian AGAPE, is..100
Thank you having the courage in addressing this very divisive topic. This organization has a history of racial bias. Thank you.
I think the prejudice in the congregation is passed off many times as a personality conflict when it goes much deeper. My poor friend had many instances when one brother or sister influenced the majority in the congregation based on the color of her skin. It pained me to see her hurting when a whole group of people would treat her family unkindly. I’m sure her boys saw the hypocrisy otherwise they would have become witnesses. It’s sad. As a human race we all need to work on prejudice. No one is exempt.
@@inairby4freedom ...Also the issue of race, and being interested in finding a potential marriage mate.. can be very awkward .. ..
@@inairby4freedom I'm terribly sorry for your friend. I can't imagine the anguish your friend is no doubt experiencing. I hope things work out for her. The congregation I'm associated with is quite diverse, both racially and culturally and everyone is unusually welcoming. However, there are are many socially awkward situations that require both patience and humility. But there is always that feeling of obligation due to the aspirational objectives place before everyone. Which tends to be inorganic.
@@tomahawknation4899 Only ministerial servants and single elders have that privilege. Lol!
@@suitguy1275 ..Thats my point lol
Always trust your gut.
They aren’t the friends. They are the acquaintances lol
I’m sorry that you guys went through that. It’s been a very different experience for me up in Canada, multiculturalism has been in our roots since the founding of our country. In fact, we were actually a safe haven for the slaves.
But growing up in the organization, I was just so used to seeing so many different ethnicities all the time in the congregation and there really was no segregation.
It’s only been lately with newcomers, the latest wave of immigration in the last five years do I notice that more Africans tend to keep to themselves in the congregation. I think they bring that sense of segregation with them from their different countries like Ghana, etc..
But Canadá has been very open arms for the most part. The only thing you would really find here is the stereotypes about the native Indians because they would give themselves a bad rap by always being drunk doing drugs, etc. but still you don’t stereotype people that’s not right. Even if they have given you reason to stereotype them. There are always exceptions.
@@CdnPIMO That was an awesome comment. I did know Canada was a safe haven along w England. Dignity was given to people w color. There’s races here in California but again they stick w themselves. I read all my comments to my husband we enjoy everyone’s input including people we may not agree with. Thank u for spending time writing ✍️ to me. LOVE from California
Listen, i am an "inactive italian brother"and i can tell you that, though the perception of it leans on the racial aspect, it takes just to be a little different than the group in your looks, thought pattern, opinions social class and so on to experience the same kind of segregation. Hope this can help you feel less offended. The problem is lack of knoledge and understanding and hardness of the heart.
@@andreamarcelli9456 thank u 🙏
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks
I sometimes feel like taking this down. So that “Thank you” helps me. You have no idea how much, especially right now at this time of my life.
So you’re welcome and THANK YOU ☺️!
thanks again : )
This is a topic that's often avoided because it's controversial. Thank you having the courage to address this very divisive topic. This organization has a history of racial bias.
Love you your a real person my sister is a he and I love her but see have problems like you said she has problems there I don't try to change her thoughts about the religion cause I love god and Jesus
Ahhh just keep loving her!!!! Stay strong!!!May our King keep us strong so one day true peace on this earth!!! A beautiful Kingdom that will give true justice with a merciful and loving King!!!
Thank you for sharing Lamar Chapman!!!!
Ahhh just keep loving her!!!! Stay strong!!!May our King keep us strong so one day true peace on this earth!!! A beautiful Kingdom that will give true justice with a merciful and loving King!!!
Thank you for sharing Lamar Chapman!!!!
AS ALWAYS, EVERY PERSON BRINGS THEIR PREVIOUS BEHAVIOR and artitudes of a person is brought into to congregation. Part of being human.. HOWEVER, HOWEVER, so is our precption of how we are treated. Step back ,,, just for a moment, and ask yourself, how much of this is their behavior,, AND HOW MUCH IS MY BEHAVIOR / PRECEPTION. THINK FOR A MOMENT, IN SOME PARTS OF THE WORLD A WEALTHY WHITE BAPTIST CHURCH IS ACROSS THE STREET FROM A POOR BLACK CHURCH. YET NO INTERACTION OCCURES! All in all, JWS do a much better job of maintaining Biblical standards than many others !
48 years of experience w JW’s I’ve seen racial injustice, suicides, child molest, cover-up all within my family. Friends who are Black who have been treated with absolute disdain and tell me with tears how hurt they feel. Elders who have molested kids and remain elders for decades and nothing happens to them they DO NOT GET removed but sent to a different congregation. Circuit overseers that abuse women verbally who’ve already been physically abused by their husbands. Elders that covered up rape for monetary gain and the blame rape victim! For moral standards the Bible is not a high bar. It’s a book that does not once condemn slavery in fact it tells Christian’s how to treat their slaves and tells slaves how to treat their masters . it describes a man who murders his best friend who got his wife pregnant “as a man after God’s own heart”. So your perspective is a classic example of knowing just enough about a subject to think your right but not enough about that subject to know your wrong.