Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America
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As a sexist, I have failed women. I have failed to speak out when I should have. I have failed to engage critically and extensively their pain and suffering in my writing. I have failed to transcend the rigidity of gender roles in my own life. I have failed to challenge those poisonous assumptions that women are “inferior” to men or to speak out loudly in the company of male philosophers who believe that feminist philosophy is just a non-philosophical fad. I have been complicit with, and have allowed myself to be seduced by, a country that makes billions of dollars from sexually objectifying ...more
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CONFESSION AND PARDON.  Merciful God, we confess that we have not loved you with our whole heart. We have failed to be an obedient church. We have not done your will,    we have broken your law,    we have rebelled against your love,    we have not loved our neighbors,    and we have not heard the cry of the needy. Forgive us, we pray. Free us for joyful obedience,       through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.