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| The Reverend Katie Cadigan at St. Augustine by-the-Sea |
St. Augustine by-the-Sea... What, no live service on YouTube? Technical difficulties? No!
Wilshire Presbyterian... No online service? You mean I have to drive there, masked, and sit 6 ft. from everyone?
Westwood Presbyterian... Will try it next...
But meanwhile, a great quote from Pastor Jacoba Vermaak on the FB page of Wilshire Pres.:
Sharing our pastor’s post
“To my white friends, please do not post stuff like: "MLK would not have condoned this violence. " We as white people can't and have no right to appropriate MLK and claim we know what he may have thought. He didn’t speak for us. He spoke against our racism. We can post his quotes, but we cannot speak for him. And here is what he really thought, in his own words:”
“The rioters are not seeking to seize territory or to attain control of institutions. They are mainly intended to shock the white community. They are a distorted form of social protest. The looting which is their principal feature serves many functions. It enables the most enraged and deprived Negro to take hold of consumer goods with the ease the white man does by using his purse”
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. - quoted in Mother Jones, April 29, 2015
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