The Fire Next Time: The Taking of Black Life at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church -27:10
written by building bridges radio
at Tuesday, June 30, 2015
The Fire Next Time: Response to The Taking of Black Life at Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Church
with
with
Ed Whitfield long-term social
justice organizer, co-managing Director of the Fund for Democratic Communities, who speaks
and writes on issues of cooperatives and economic development,
on issues of education and social responses to racism and is
active in the call by the Southern Grassroots Economies Project to
develop a Southern Reparations Loan Fund
As Professor Charles Lawrence precisely puts it:
"Racism in America is much more complex than either the conscious conspiracy of a power elite or the simple delusion
of a few ignorant bigots. It is a part of our common historical
experience and, therefore, a part of our culture. It arises from the assumptions we have learned to make about the world, ourselves, and others as well as from the patterns of our fundamental social activities. "
Ed Whitfield, long-term social justice organizer, co-managing Director of the Fund for Democratic Communities, who speaks and writes on issues of cooperatives and economic development, on issues of education and social responses to racism and is active in the call by the Southern Grassroots Economies Project to develop a Southern Reparations Loan Fund plows deep into the bowels of America, to ferret out and grapple with its policies and practices of white supremacy, rooted deep within its public and private structures. He'll examine how then institutional racism filters down to the individual citizenry and becomes a material force to subjugate Black Life. Ed Whitfield asks whether we will wait for The Fire Next Time or will we and how we can endeavor to tear out the roots of the poisons weeds of white supremacy that can subsume the very nurturance of life.
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