[Faith-talk] False Accusations

[Julie C. Vogt]

It happened by accident.  When you didn't stop attacking in my in-box--those of you who did it--people of other races by way of our new President-elect, I wrote what I wrote.  Now you know how false accusations hurt everybody.  Because of one man the African-American Church, and people who attend them, have been under tremendous attack ever since last March with no let-up.  Ever since I began attending and became saved in African-American churches in 1972, I've heard dirty, dirty comments like:  "they just do in their church what they did in the slave days."  In the slave days, African-Americans weren't permitted to know anything of the Bible but "Servants obey your masters in the Lord for this is right.

If people say what people have said about one another's churches ever since last March, referring to us as blind people, we'd be up in arms.  Let us all be more careful.

It hit me like a thunderbolt while I was playing piano at a senior citizens building today why you all were upset.  And as upset as you were last Thursday night, Linda, I was that upset one month ago when I read what you particularly sent me privately at 5:00 on a Sunday morning while  I was getting ready for church.  I'm sorry and maybe we can understand one another better now.

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"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul," American Humorist Mark Twain

"An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us," Dr. Kenneth Jernigan, Immediate Past President, National Federation of the Blind

"A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle." Proverbs 18 19. KJV

"Faith is the ability to see God in the dark.," (unknown)

"No one can do it for us but us," Rev. Jesse Jackson, Operation Push, 1976.

"With proper training, development, and opportunity, blindness can be reduced to the level of a physical nuisance or characteristic," the Late Dr. Kenneth Jernigan, Past President, National Federation of the Blind.

Julie Vogt or jcvogt at pressenter.com