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You can’t be passively anti-racist… So do something about it

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One of the few podcast I listen to faithful is that of Carmen Van Kerckhove and Jen Chau, formerly Addicted to Race and Mixed Media Watch, now Racialicious. As you probably guessed they talk about a lot of things race related. It’s always an interesting discussion and their blog provides great insight into pop culture as well.
I’ve had a couple of conversations recently about race, about the idea of not being passively anti-racist, but rather the need to be active. Also the need to keep conversation open, particularly for white people who don’t often think about race at all.

Anyways, I wanted to be sure to let everyone know about a new site, Race Changers, that you absolutely must subscribe to. I’m quite serious about that too, if your not currently taking any steps to being anti-racist, then there is a grave danger of continuing to be passively racist. Race Changers is a site dedicated to learning and taking action, “Working towards an anti-racist future, one week at a time.” I’m not sure all the assignments we’ll be given but I know it will be a worthwhile experience.

I’ll be sure to talk about what I’m learning each week as we go.

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10/5 Material Possessions and the Love of God

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The daily podcast continues with some pretty harcore preaching on I John 3:

“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? 18Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.”

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Quoted in a published article

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I’m famous or something, Sam asked me some questions and quoted me in an article he recently wrote at Ethics Daily entitled, Genocide for the Digital World:

Ariah Fine, a socially aware Christian who works with teenagers in Nashville, finds the game very unique. “The target audience of the gaming community is another big step in raising awareness to an audience that might not have otherwise heard about Darfur,” he says. “I work with high school students and they aren’t constantly checking BBC news for the latest humanitarian crisis, but they are playing plenty of games online. This project helps them hear about the issues in Darfur.”

Even though the game is packed with facts and stories in the small print, the die-hard gamer may not stop to read them all while playing. But, the simple fact that the game exists, coupled with MTV’s backing, is a conversation started in itself.

Says Fine: “A game like this is a great ice breaker and tool for bringing up the conversation with a group that might not otherwise care or know about the issues in Darfur.”

Read the rest of the article.