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Jul. 1, 2008
Sharing the table: Latin Kings work for peace and unity
by Kyle Lambelet
On Monday, June 30th the Beloved Community Center, Pulpit Forum, and area church and community leaders joined with Jorge Cornell and members of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (ALKQN) to call for peace in the streets and an end to racist policies and practices.
A connection made
Jorge Cornell, known as King J, is head Inca and leader of the ALKQN in North Carolina. Cornell and other members of the ALKQN participated in the BCC's weekly community...
Jun. 26, 2008
An open letter to Dr. Chafe
by Robert P. Foxworth
Dear Dr. Chafe:
Having read Civilities and Civil Rights, I came to your recent Greensboro presentation with great anticipation that you would apply the same power of analysis that you gave to Greensboro's history from 1940-1970 to subsequent events in Greensboro's more recent history. I was disappointed. Not only did you not speak with that power, your talk displayed a lack of knowledge, justifiable only because the program listed your subject as the period covered by your...
Jun. 3, 2008
Vocabulary Lessons
by Jean Rodenbough
Sometimes other languages can supplement our thinking in concepts that English words cannot provide except through longer phrases. To borrow from other tongues is a way to stretch our own world views and understand what we may not have fully comprehended before. I’m thinking of two African expressions that meet this criteria.
When Bishop Desmond Tutu spoke at a Forum at the National Cathedral last November (in fact, on the day when a group of us were catching a plane to...
Apr. 14, 2008
Greensboro's Two Wars
by Jean Rodenbough
“Greensboro is intimately associated with the close of two wars.” The first one was “the triumph of one rebellion against oppression and in behalf of the political rights of man.” Yet the second rebellion had as its object “to perpetuate the right of one man to deprive another of all rights.”
– Adrian Whicker. “Special Correspondence of the Inquirer. Greensboro, N.C. July 6, 1865.” Published in The Philadelphia Inquirer...
Apr. 11, 2008
King Plus 40 Years: A Proposal for 12 months of Study on the Use of Power in Greensboro with a focus on the Progressive Mystique
by Rev. Nelson Johnson
King-Plus 40 years: a critique of the use of power (the progressive mystique) and the struggle for beloved community in Greensboro. I have come to the point of believing that the capacity to confuse people, promote conflict, and hide the real working of power in Greensboro is a most urgent question. Chafe hit the nail on the head when he identified a kind of deceptive “civilities” that promotes a “progressive mystique” which conceals a very reactionary use of...