Today is Flag Day in the U.S. While we are very grateful for the privilege we enjoy as (mostly) white citizens of this country, we recognize that it has come at a terrible price to our nonwhite brothers and sisters both in this land and around the world. From the genocide of this continents native population, often fueled by God and country rhetoric as evidenced in the notion of manifest destiny, to the legacy of slavery, we U.S. citizens whose true allegiance is pledged only to Christ and his kingdom have much to repent of, and much work to do. Ta-Nehisi Coates recent revelatory piece in the Atlantic points us in the direction of how we might go about some of that work. On this Flag Day, for the sake of God and this country, heres hoping well take notice and get to it.
Posted on: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:45:32 +0000
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