Christians, PRAY
First, a word from me
God made each of us exactly as He decided long before we were conceived in the womb, Psalm 139:16. For that reason, we should honor and respect all people as those who have been uniquely created by God, and in His own image. By this same token, we should never despise, reject or apologize—in terms of ethnicity, race, or gender—for how the Creator of the universe chose to make us for His good pleasure.
Regardless of your view on the following article, if you think this kind of programming—which incidentally, is far more likely to result in more bias and racism by those so inclined, not less—isn’t opening the door to all sorts of future conditioning and forced compliance, to include that of the Church, think again. This is serious.
[I know, I’m supposed to be on sabbatical.. but I can’t sit by and say nothing about these kinds of things]

Last month, the City of Seattle’s Office of Civil Rights sent an email inviting “white City employees” to attend a training session on “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness,” a program designed to help white workers examine their “complicity in the system of white supremacy” and “interrupt racism in ways that are accountable to Black, Indigenous and People of Color.” Hoping to learn more, I submitted a public records request for all documentation related to the training. The results are disturbing.
At the beginning of the session, the trainers explain that white people have internalized a sense of racial superiority, which has made them unable to access their “humanity” and caused “harm and violence” to people of color. The trainers claim that “individualism,” “perfectionism,” “intellectualization,” and “objectivity” are all vestiges of this internalized racial oppression and must be abandoned in favor of social-justice principles. In conceptual terms, the city frames the discussion around the idea that black Americans are reducible to the essential quality of “blackness” and white Americans are reducible to the essential quality of “whiteness”—that is, the new metaphysics of good and evil.
Once the diversity trainers have established this basic conceptual framework, they encourage white employees to “practice self-talk that affirms [their] complicity in racism” and work on “undoing [their] own whiteness.” As part of this process, white employees must abandon their “white normative behavior” and learn to let go of their “comfort,” “physical safety,” “social status,” and “relationships with some other white people.” As writer James Lindsay has pointed out, this is not the language of human resources; it is the language of cult programming—persuading members they are defective in some predefined manner, exploiting their emotional vulnerabilities, and isolating them from previous relationships.
It’s important to point out that this “interrupting whiteness” training is not an anomaly. In recent years, nearly every department of Seattle city government has been recruited into the ideological fight against “white supremacy.” As I have documented, the city’s homelessness agency hosted a conference on how to “decolonize [their] collective work”; the school system released a curriculum explaining that “math is a tool for oppression”; and the city-owned power company hired a team of bureaucrats to fight “structural racism” within their organization. Dozens of private companies now offer diversity training to public agencies. The idea that all whites have unconscious, “implicit bias” that they must vigilantly program themselves to overcome has become an article of faith across corporate boardrooms, academia, and law-enforcement agencies, even though the premise is unscientific and impossible to verify.
The endgame is to make Seattle’s municipal government the arbiter of the new orthodoxy, and then work outward. At the end of the session on “internalized racial superiority,” the diversity trainers outline strategies for converting outsiders and recommend specific “practices for interrupting others’ whiteness.” In effect, the activists have organized an ideological pyramid scheme—using public dollars to establish their authority within the government, then using that authority to recruit others into the program. As Lindsay writes, “the goal is no longer to indoctrinate on what is ‘rightthink’ and ‘wrongthink.’ It is to make the [subject’s] thinking be completely in line with the view of the world described by the cult doctrine.”
How far can this racial-justice shakedown extend itself? The new racial orthodoxy has seen exponential growth in the past few years and has proved extremely difficult for local governments and elite institutions to resist. The movement’s key rhetorical premise is designed as a trap: if you are not an “antiracist,” then you are a “racist”—and must be held to account. Skeptics might dismiss Seattle’s “interrupting whiteness” training as a West Coast oddity, but it is part of a nationwide movement to make this kind of identity politics the foundation of our public discourse. It may be coming soon to a city or town near you.
Christopher F. Rufo is a contributing editor of City Journal and director of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty. He’s directed four documentaries for PBS, including his new film, America Lost, which tells the story of three “forgotten American cities.” Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
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City Journal is a publication of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI), a leading free-market think tank.
I had to read the article twice.
I have no words.
A call to prayer . Thank you Dee.
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My feelings exactly. Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts.
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Reblogged this on J-M's History Corner and commented:
Sickening.
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Absolutely disgusting!
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What’s more sad than anything else is that there are so-called Christians who are supporting all that is going on. Not just with this, but with the direction this country and world is heading. I’m concerned for their souls.
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Very, very sad & concerning.
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Agreed. Things are unraveling.. but I’m grateful to know that God and not man or satan, is in control.
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Amen!
(P.S. I’ve started watching The X-Files.)
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I really like those shows. The only thing is, they never seem to end with any kind of closure. 😦
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True. I guess they wanna keep their options open for future seasons.
Have you seen Supernatural?
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No, I’ve not even heard of Supernatural. What’s it about?
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It’s a show about a pair of brothers who hunt evil creatures – demons, vampires, werewolves, etc. It’s really good.
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I’m surprised I haven’t heard of it. I’ll see if I can find it.
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I think you’d like it. I watch it on Prime.
Have you seen Chilling Adventures of Sabrina?
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Thanks, I’ll look for it there. No I’ve not seen or heard of that one either. Prime also?
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Nope, Netflix. You might call it a witchy show.
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I’ll see if I can find it. Thanks for the tip. 🙂
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Enjoy 🙂
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(Sabrina has Miranda Otto in it.)
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Not sure who that is. I must live under a rock. 😂
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Yeah, you do – she played Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings.
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Oh right, now I know who she is. Thanks.
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Dee – Thank you for coming off sabbatical to post this! Yes, this movement is far more prevalent than just a West Coast “oddity,” as the article proclaims. It is sweeping among the woke crowd throughout the country. The blatant racism behind the movement is overlooked by the woke crowd and the charge that if you don’t see your internal dynamic the way we, the self-proclaimed arbiters define it, it simply proves that you suffer from that dynamic. So, if I call someone an “idiot” and they don’t think they’re an idiot, that simply proves to those of us “in the know” that they are, in fact, idiots. Didn’t George Orwell write about this? Thank you for calling all Christians to prayer around this evil. Unfortunately, what happens in Seattle will not stay there …
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I completely agree with your summation. Have you heard the latest from Nick Cannon? https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/viacomcbs-cuts-ties-nick-cannon-after-anti-semitic-comments-n1233878
So sad that many of color think they are above the bar when it comes to hate speech and racist comments. I fully support CBS Viacom and messaged them telling them so. I also messaged Nick Cannon and told him how saddened I was over his words and actions.
And yes, George Orwell wrote about all of this in the book, 1984. Sometimes I wonder if the evil powers that be are using his book as a manual, it’s that accurate. Seattle used to be a great place, but now it’s just the breeding ground for all things wicked and perverted. So sad. God bless you, brother.
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I clicked on the Nick Cannon link and can see where that was going. He’s not alone in voicing anti-Semitic rhetoric. Of course, the political left in our country is fixated on pinning racism as an evil only among whites, especially conservatives, especially Christians. Neat trick, if you can pull it off. The reality is that sin (which racism is) infects every heart of every race. Not pretty, but it’s true. We all need to pray that one out together. God bless, Dee!
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All very true. This link might actually help a little more, as his comments were far from only being anti-Semitic, but an attack on anyone who is not black. https://www.tmz.com/2020/07/14/nick-cannon-accused-black-supremacist-white-people-animals-savages/
Very twisted and disturbing…
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Yes, this is proving the point that racism, hatred, and bigotry are found in the hearts of all races. That’s sin. It is not a political issue to be solved by electing one brand of candidates over another. The heart change comes from turning one’s life over to God.
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Well said, Ward.
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Really bizarre!
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That’s an understatement! So sad the masses are so deceived, and even many Christians. The indoctrination and conditioning is strong these days and will only get worse. As followers of Christ we are to love and honor all people and to love God supremely. When we do this we fulfill God’s law.
“Do not owe anyone anything—except to love one another. For the one who loves another has fulfilled the Law. For the commandments, “You must not commit adultery; you must not murder; you must not steal; you must not covet,” and every other commandment are summed up in this statement: “You must love your neighbor as yourself.” Love never does anything that is harmful to its neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the Law.” ~Romans 13:8-10
God bless!
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