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Post by What Hat on Jun 2, 2006 20:10:49 GMT -5
I've heard that there are conventions, meetings that are specifically for blacks??? Anyone know if this is true...and if so, why?
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Post by Greg Lee unplugged on Jun 2, 2006 20:18:01 GMT -5
Supposedly because of the racists outside the workers' church that might inflict harm on either the black man or the white man.
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Post by Cherie Kropp on Jun 2, 2006 21:08:11 GMT -5
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Post by Terry on Jun 3, 2006 15:45:57 GMT -5
Again about 30 years (give or take I'm old!!) we had a visiting worker (from Kentucky) visit our home on special meeting rounds. After his second "black person" joke I told him we didn't appreciate that humor in our home. The visit ended about 5 minutes later.
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Post by mrleo on Jun 3, 2006 15:49:11 GMT -5
Are any of the overseers of any of the South American, African or Asian countries/areas natives of those countries?
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no east west south or north
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Post by no east west south or north on Jun 4, 2006 18:31:46 GMT -5
there was a convention in penn. that was for the black professing people, but they ended that a few years ago. they decided that it was not needed any more. I had a friend who i brought to mtg and he did decide, he had asked me if the friends were racist, i did not tell him what i knew. at his first visit at some friends home an elder and his son were looking at a national geographic and there was a face of a gorilla on the cover, the elder looked at his son and said doesnt this look like a big black person, my friend looked at me after this was said i was so embarrased. my friend was raised in very poor conditions in a black neighborhood though he was white. like me he had great respect for black people. I left the area and was told that he was no longer going to mtgs.
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Post by Brick on Jun 5, 2006 9:56:57 GMT -5
there was a convention in penn. that was for the black professing people, but they ended that a few years ago. Correction: It was in VA, but "they" ended it because of a change in ownership. Now the black people in the Northeast attend either Quakertown or Altamont. There is no limitation. While Scrabble (the black convention in VA) was still a convention, Quakertown and Altamont still had several regular attendees from the black population.
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