White supremacy is alive
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A progressive Christian church apologized for offending churchgoers with a calendar that displayed ‘the subtleties of racism’ by featuring a blonde child on its cover.
United Church of Christ President Rev. John C. Dorhauer apologized profusely in a letter to members posted on the UCC website on May 23. Addressing complaints, he said the new desk calendar "failed to live up to our commitments to be an antiracist body."
The 2024 desk calendar is currently being sold on the UCC website. The cover features a drawing of children and at least one adult with gray hair holding hands in a circle. Children of various skin colors are displayed in the graphic, but it appears some UCC members were upset that a White child with blonde hair was towards the top of the image.
Rev. Dorhauer suggested they should have rotated the image slightly so a more racially diverse person was at the top instead.
"It has been brought to my attention that a slight rotation of the cover image in either direction would more accurately reflect the racial equity we seek. I am grateful for such attention to the subtleties of racism and agree," he wrote.
The UCC president thanked members who let him know about their "disappointment and outrage" over the calendar. He lamented the pervasiveness of "white privilege."
Sure, don't we all lament it?
Here it is.
That white person is just a little too supreme.
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There's black people at 7:30 and 10:30. 7:30 plus 10:30 is 6:00. 6:00 points straight down, indicating that the author of that calendar holds an implicit bias of "down with black people". IMO that is wrong. Racism is wrong. They were right to apologize. Disgusting.
