National Memorial for Peace and Justice - Alabama

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

I was just reading about this amazing, bold, timely, yet haunting, new museum and its artwork, and thought it should be shared...

In the NY Times

A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.

 

[Luce NDs]

Tis like Peter hoch' din the temple ... upside down suspension? Tis story is reciprocal ...

 

[BetteTheRed]

That is very powerful. I like the ethos behind it - not to punish America, but to awaken her to knowledge of her deeds, to begin the healing process.

 

[Luce NDs]

That is very powerful. I like the ethos behind it - not to punish America, but to awaken her to knowledge of her deeds, to begin the healing process.

The Shining? A creepy tome ...

 

[Mendalla]

I read about that somewhere else (the Globe, maybe) and it sounds very impressive. A great way to acknowledge and remember a sad part of history.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

It's a painfully honest, creatively expressed, exhibit.

 

[Ritafee]

RIP ...
Rev. Dr. James H. Cone, known as the founder of Black Liberation Theology, died Saturday morning in New York City at the age of 79. In honor of his legacy, we are reprinting the following 2012 piece by Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges, who sat by the renowned Christian thinker in his final hours, along with a clip from a speech Cone delivered in 1971.

James Cone's Gospel of the Penniless, Jobless, Marginalized and Despised

• “The Cross and the Lynching Tree are separated by nearly two thousand years,” James Cone writes in his new book, “The Cross and the Lynching Tree.” “One is the universal symbol of the Christian faith; the other is the quintessential symbol of black oppression in America. Though both are symbols of death, one represents a message of hope and salvation, while the other signifies the negation of that message by white supremacy. Theologians talk about things removed, way out there. They talk to each other. They give each other degrees. The real world is not there."
  
• "So that is why I turn to the poets. They talk to the people .“Being Christian is like being black,” Cone said. “It’s a paradox. You grow up. You wonder why they treat you like that. And yet at the same time my mother and daddy told me ‘don’t hate like they hate. If you do, you will self-destruct. Hate only kills the hater, not the hated.’ It was their faith that gave them the resources to transcend the brutality and see the real beauty. It’s a mystery. "
  
• "It’s a mystery how African-Americans, after two and half centuries of slavery, another century of lynching and Jim Crow segregation, still come out loving white people. Now, most white people don’t think I love them, but I do. They always feel strange when I say that. You see, the deeper the love, the more the passion, especially when the one you love hurt you. Your brothers and sisters, and yet they treat you like the enemy. The paradox is, is that in spite of all that, African-Americans are the only people who’ve never organized to take down this nation."

 

[Luce NDs]

Being a Black Sheep is really disturbing to those that teach God is love ... but don't like things unseen ... some rifts and holes may appear ...

 

[Jaebius]

Being a Black Sheep is really disturbing to those that teach God is love ... but don't like things unseen ... some rifts and holes may appear ...

God loves black sheep too Luce. Have no fear, you're loved.

 

[Luce NDs]

God loves black sheep too Luce. Have no fear, you're loved.

Not according to some reports echoing as ego across the vale ...

I cannot be seen in the darkness of the lords soul ... looking out from the shadows on mite cents ... physically stuck lords in the Maas of sticks? Resembles a Matt of fibres ... Pappy Ruse?