Rabbi Debra Kolodny believes that Black Lives Matter is “one of the most critical movements of our day.” And she wants to transfer that belief into action.
So Kolodny next weekend will lead a nationwide conference of LGBTQ clergy from all faiths to explore ways to actively support the activist group that exploded onto the national scene after several high-profile deaths of black men and women in confrontations with cops.
“I’ve been active in the national LGBTQ religious movement for almost 20 years,” explained Kolodny.
“For all that time our leadership has spoken of the need to embrace complexity and understand the intersections of all of our identities, including race, class, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, national origin and ability.”
Kolodny, the executive director of Nehirim, a national LGBTQ Jewish retreat and advocacy organization, says the four-day conference , starting next Thursday in Portland, Oregon, will look to coordinate and strategize with BLM leaders and alter the way religious voices talk about — or don’t talk about — race.
“There have been too few instances where we have acted upon this intention [to dialogue on race] in a concerted, strategic and ongoing way,” she said.
“Our hope is that this conference launches one such coordinated effort, as LGBTQ clergy gather from around the country, from multiple traditions, and work together to support one of the most critical movements of our day.”
Also co-leading the conference will be Dr. Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajaje, the provost and professor of cultural studies at the Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, Calif.; and the Rev. Tara Wilkins, executive director of the Community of Welcoming Congregations in Portland.
Farajaje predicts a weekend in which clergy “reflect, activate and agitate around Black Lives Matter.”
“Black trans, black bisexual, black lesbian and black gay lives are also black lives, and they all matter,” he said. “We will walk away from this gathering with a plan and a path to engage and activate thousands of individuals across communities to better support the Black Lives Matter movement, for all of us.”
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The Jews first concern is always, “what is good for us,” so they always have an ulterior motive when doing something. All the cases that I’m aware of in which a black was killed by a cop resulted in the cops acquittal and then the Jewish media propagandizing that “white racism” caused the acquittal. In the case of Michael Brown, I’m satisfied he was nasty thug that would have seriously hurt, if not killed the much smaller cop named Darren Wilson.
My feeling is the Jews like this Rabbi are promoting ethnic hatred in the US rather than fighting it. I believe they are promoting anti-white racism in order to take more power from whites, who they consider a threat to themselves. This is not my idea. I’ve read a lot about it and it makes sense to me. Once you realize how far the ruling whites have fallen in the US and the ruling elite is now Jews, in every area – finance, media, gov’t policy, including foreign policy you understand why they consider it in their best interests to bring down whites.
Here’s a question (rhetorical) for the good rabbi: do semitic Palestinian lives matter? We know the answer, of course.
Peter, it goes further, the Jews mean to exterminate all whites, as it’s in the meaning of the signage, that is, white lives don’t matter, but yellow and brown lives do.
How will the Jews attempt to do it ?
Using Black Americans, and LGBTIQN types – self hating whites, brigades of them, and ISIS, who are openly within the soon to be millions of Middle Eastern ‘immigrants’ – invaders really, flooding into Europe, and later into the US and Australia.
The Jews first concern is always, “what is good for us,” so they always have an ulterior motive when doing something. All the cases that I’m aware of in which a black was killed by a cop resulted in the cops acquittal and then the Jewish media propagandizing that “white racism” caused the acquittal. In the case of Michael Brown, I’m satisfied he was nasty thug that would have seriously hurt, if not killed the much smaller cop named Darren Wilson.
My feeling is the Jews like this Rabbi are promoting ethnic hatred in the US rather than fighting it. I believe they are promoting anti-white racism in order to take more power from whites, who they consider a threat to themselves. This is not my idea. I’ve read a lot about it and it makes sense to me. Once you realize how far the ruling whites have fallen in the US and the ruling elite is now Jews, in every area – finance, media, gov’t policy, including foreign policy you understand why they consider it in their best interests to bring down whites.
Here’s a question (rhetorical) for the good rabbi: do semitic Palestinian lives matter? We know the answer, of course.
Peter, it goes further, the Jews mean to exterminate all whites, as it’s in the meaning of the signage, that is, white lives don’t matter, but yellow and brown lives do.
How will the Jews attempt to do it ?
Using Black Americans, and LGBTIQN types – self hating whites, brigades of them, and ISIS, who are openly within the soon to be millions of Middle Eastern ‘immigrants’ – invaders really, flooding into Europe, and later into the US and Australia.