But he's also a tragic figure, shouldering the burden of his own traumatic background and the immense weight of
black suffering in general.
Not exact matches
One company Plasticity currently works with has employees around the world, Moss says, and its data has revealed what he calls a «
black hole»: a cohort of staff
in a region that's
suffered a significant economic downturn who are struggling with morale.
As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, a war with North Korea is the markets» biggest geopolitical
black swan, because it would likely be cataclysmic, with hundreds of thousands dead, the world's fifth - largest metro area, Seoul,
suffering massive destruction, and perhaps even nuclear or chemical weapons unleashed on Japan or U.S. bases
in the region.
Yanking health insurance from any retiree is bad enough, but these are people who spent their working lives
in highly unsafe conditions; many now
suffer from
black lung and other coal - related ailments.
But they
suffer from the fact that so many criminals
in America are
black.
One need no longer ascribe to God the «many forms of systematic
suffering and social malfunctioning
in the world which continue to oppress
Black Americans, women, Africans, American Indians and other social groups...» Theodicy no longer pertains solely to divine agency.
I am curious if that's Marlon Waynes
in the above photo... or I guess I could be
suffering from residual racism and all
black people look like a Waynes brother to me...
Jackson faces the elephants
in the room of whites and
blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially
in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is
suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.
A second basic pastoral - care ministry — that of «sustaining» or helping persons who have
suffered traumatic experiences to endure and transcend those experiences, and indeed to grow
in and through them, and often because of them — is likewise closely related through
black theology.
Although the formulation of the question was not always precise, the everyday experience of
black suffering, arising from
black people's encounter with the sociopolitical structures controlled by whites, created
in my consciousness a radical conflict between the claims of faith on the one hand and the reality of the world on the other.
The weight of the problem of evil
in the
black church was not located primarily
in terms of God's need to justify himself
in view of the presence of
suffering in the world.
It was not until I left Garrett and Northwestern and returned to Philander Smith to teach religion and philosophy that I began to ask more formally about the relation between faith and
suffering as that contradiction is defined
in the
black community.
second) The most basic religious datum of
black theology is that human experience becomes divine experience, that our
suffering becomes divine
suffering,
in that God actually experiences our experience of humiliation, pain, and
suffering.
Blacks have
suffered more than any other group
in American history from the projection of every rejected impulse
in the unconscious white mind.
One last thought, it seems to me that if this was a Civil rights issue; the very people who have
suffered the most
in this area would be for you (
Black Americans).
It is this kind of experience,
suffered in milder form by many immigrant groups, that leads Harold Cruse, perhaps the most thoughtful of contemporary
black intellectuals, to write:
«
Black Christians believed that just knowing that Jesus went through an experience of
suffering in a manner similar to theirs gave them faith that God was with them, even
in suffering on lynching trees just as God was present with Jesus
in suffering on the cross.»
To a delegation of
black leaders
in 1862, he admitted candidly that «I think your race
suffer very greatly....
This journey has taken me to minister
in vacation Bible schools
in Appalachia, to
black migrant camps
in South Carolina and to patients
suffering in mental hospitals.
Beloved functions not as a supernatural but as a frightening natural presence,
in her double significance as both the child killed by her mother to spare her a life of slavery and the haunting memory of all
blacks who
suffered and died under slavery.
The many forms of systemic
suffering and social malfunctioning
in the world which continue to oppress
Black Americans, women, Africans, American Indians, and other social groups, can not be ascribed to God.
If my grandparents had been beaten or lynched for the colour of their skin, if my parents had
suffered under oppressive segregation, if I had a friend or relative who had been shot down
in cold blood by a police department because that is just way more likely if you're
Black in America, I'd have been angry, too.
Two years ago I wore
black for the entire Lenten season as a symbol of my grief over the death of our Lord, and I also wore
black in solidarity for the
suffering that is experienced
in this world by so many people.
His efforts led many
blacks and a few whites to endure
suffering and death
in the face of white violence.
In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be
suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.
There is a dating website for
blacks only, and that is ok I guess cus they
suffered in chains right?
I couldn't help it: I was full of
black rage,
suffering from post-traumatic stress, caught up
in the mentality of the mob.
Hell Is A Place Of Everlasting Noise, Where Voices, Plaintive And Obnoxious Cry Over And Over Again Their Favourite Word
In constant iteration: I, I, I. Hell Is A Place Where Mirrors Are
Black Water, And Rivers Salt, And Atmosphere Like Lead, Where
Suffering Is All The Rage And Fashion, And everything is dead except the dead.
Theodore Walker makes the point: «The most basic religious datum of
black theology is that human experience becomes divine experience, that our
suffering becomes divine
suffering,
in that God actually experiences our experience of humiliation, pain, and
suffering.»
From a
black theology perspective, the primary ethical message announces the love of God
in light of the daily reality of sin, the mystery of evil, and
suffering in the world.
In my opinion all
black mormons overtly
suffer a form of Stockholm syndrome.
I see this happen a lot
in the church when
Black women
suffer tragedies such as financial struggle, a terminal or fatal illness, and the death of a child or spouse.
In the church, it seems to me that
Black women - more than any other racial / gender group - are taught that strain and
suffering are indicative of holiness.
Tarik
Black, who
suffered a fracture
in his foot last year and took a redshirt, is back and participating with the team for spring practice.
Tarik
Black, who is likely out for the remainder of the 2017 season after
suffering a broken bone
in his foot, can't wait to show the world what he's about:
Tarik
Black, who is redshirting this year after
suffering a broken foot earlier
in the year, posted the following to his...
The
Black Cats» manager Steve Bruce will raid his old club
in an effort to strengthen his squad that
suffered an alarming drop
in form
in the last half of the season.
Tarik
Black, who is likely out for the remainder of the 2017 season after
suffering a broken bone
in his foot,...
The next
black person to
suffer Souleymane's fate should be free to file an official complaint, safe
in the knowledge that his case would not be treated with suspicion or prejudice.
For Liverpool, Dejan Lovren is expected to return after missing the impressive 4 - 1 victory over Leicester following a heavy collision at practice
in which he
suffered a
black eye.
Bolton lost 2 - 0 at Sunderland earlier
in the season and it is going to be imperative that they don't
suffer twice this season against the
Black Cats on Saturday.
The players also wore
black armbands during last week's match against Tottenham
in honour of all those affected by the attack
in the Las Ramblas area of the city
in which 13 people were killed, with others
suffering serious injuries, including Julian's mother Jom.
However, the
Black Cats have lost 22 Premier League games against United and they haven't
suffered more defeats
in the competition against any other side.
April 8 — West Bromwich Albion, the Midlands football club now assured of at least one more season of English top - tier football, remained
in the
black while
suffering a near halving of profits
in the year to 30 June 2015.
Anyone who's ever
suffered through the torture of working
in retail knows that
Black Friday is only the beginning of a long, drawn - out, cluster eff of a month - long shopping spree, which ends with a big ol' grand finale bang of the Post-Christmas Returns And Exchanges Extravaganza.
Madigan, who had kept the bitter and racially charged Chicago City Council fight out of the capital until last week,
suffered a jolt when 14
black Democrats threatened to abandon the party
in the November election if the park district bill passed the legislature.
There are a lot of areas
in USA where white people
suffer from the same same problems as
black population (I recommend «Hillbilly Elegy» by J. D. Vance).
I can't stand watching a white guy point out
suffering black people
in the background.
The acquittal of a Baltimore police officer charged
in the arrest of Freddie Gray, the
black man who
suffered a fatal spinal cord injury while
in police custody last year, immediately renewed questions of whether any of the six police officers charged
in the case would be convicted
in connection with his death.
For those of you who
suffered through
black dark periods
in our nation's history like Teapot Dome and Troopergate, this will merely be another sad example of the malfeasance we've come to expect from our elected officials.