Rankin Chapel-Cornel West

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the wind was so cool when Scott was. Wounded. The next 11 you were OK what is it about these negroes the only because just a few months ago. Was the let me tell you was we don't have a black can come between. The ears. Somebody must the problem. Has some to do with the front you face. Oh Or are you just something to do to deal with the moment will unfold over and over again. It is better to be momentarily defeated then right then know when NBA games it's better not to get down in them. The good ruffians in bigotry and hatred even if you can get away with it preserve the integrity don't be concerned just which is security charter and magnanimity.

Don't be concerned just with your prosperity. That's a tradition afternoons are all in America now is it what is the matter with that tradition of black people. I tell you what he it's a nation of excessive greed spiritual tradition and moral constipation. What do you say all right. Tom. The dominant orientation now we live in the ME so many black soul who just couldn't wait to be in the morning to you because they think it was all about six feet missed the following week you lose all of the good knowing all of the polling in the same week.

People are intimate with forms of day's social civic psyches spiritual being in close proximity to Terri's. And now that the nation has the blues. You either learn something from people with a funky face or you can end up losing your demise. What makes it really what makes it holy face a fundamental commitment to the love of the first Palestinian Jew named Jesus. There are millions of black people including myself at the moment we can see such a man and we hear she uses using

the word immediate. We've got games to prove his righteous indignation doesn't mean to teach you something but that Jesus reminds me not just of himself and God's self but also of the tradition of black people of appropriating yet Jean just so that our ancestors remain at a point of reference so that. They become less in use in space and God takes way takes care of what happens on the other side of the Jordan. But if we don't have young people who have a deep sense of vocation who have vision and have a voice and can understand that the afterlife from those great ancestors is in your life that what David gives you is your life in terms of the tradition that shaped you and what you give to them.

Is there an afterlife in the life that you believe in. That's a grand challenge to connect these three dimensions of time past present and future. And we can lose that. There's no guarantee we don't have to get into the way in which our churches have been flattened. We don't have time to get into which so many of the great sources of struggle for truth and justice are evacuating. We see the next nine months or so whether America has to meddle may become so used to that. They said we don't know.

But one benchmark of the melting is the overcoming of indifference. That's what we've seen this past week. It's what we've seen in the past few weeks. Indifference is the one trait that makes the very thing we pray in look at the levels of indifference toward those who have been suffering in the last 30 days disproportionately black but not exclusively its sources. There's no button source to source but the indifference truth. That's what needs to be shot. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel used to say in difference the evil is more evil than evil it's there. That's what makes ice age what it is the icing on the heart the coarsening of the conch heartening of the soul. Do we have what it takes our university. Is not in our hands.

We'll require you. Then we got off to fishing with this friend. Thank you all so very much.