Word: lincoln
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...CAME TO PASS LAST WEEK THAT 219 YEARS after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all men are created equal, 132 years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, 41 years after the Supreme Court struck down segregation and three months after Mississippi ratified the 13th Amendment, the Southern Baptist Convention finally got around to admitting that slavery is sinful and asked forgiveness from blacks for its historic role in defending segregation...
...Baptist pulpits was that God himself had ordained the separation of the races and that to tamper with it was to go against his will. "Just think of all the violence and bitterness we might have been spared if the Southern Baptists had repudiated racism sooner," says C. Eric Lincoln, a retired professor of religion at Duke University. "The country would have been 100 years ahead of where it is today in race relations...
...currently account for about 500,000 of the church's 15.5 million members. "This is very much connected to the Southern Baptists' attempts to reach out to blacks, who share with them a very strong belief in Fundamentalism," says John Hope Franklin, the distinguished black historian. Moreover, as Lincoln notes, the antislavery resolution "costs very little in real terms. It's one thing to make a gesture by asking forgiveness for somebody else's sins. It's much more difficult to lay out a real plan in which you say we are going to do certain, specific things to demonstrate...
Even so, the Southern Baptists can probably count on most blacks to take the apology in good faith. African Americans are by nature a forgiving people, says Lincoln. So much so that many of them, including several prominent Baptist ministers in Harlem, threw a lavish ceremony last week to welcome ex-heavyweight champion Mike Tyson home from prison, despite howls of outrage from black feminists who charged that the much hyped ceremony was tantamount to enshrining brutality toward women. If blacks harbor such forbearance for a convicted rapist who has yet to repent his crime, it stands to reason that...
George Washington had his cherry tree, Abe Lincoln his log cabin and Newt Gingrich -- according toa new inspirational tract available at bookstores everywhere-- had French inflation. The House Speaker's controversial book, "To Renew America," which went on sale today, is full of revelations, says TIME Daily's Robertson Barrett. Among them: When Newt's military dad was stationed in France, sky-high French inflation taught a 13-year-old Gingrich that "when a government cheats its own people by inflating the currency rather than facing tough political decisions, it is inviting trouble." On the return trip to America...