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Vera, I truly appreciate you caring!
But you might want to re-watch the film, because you actually hit the nail directly on the head. Where is the deliverance, or more importantly, from what are the students I am talking about waiting to be delivered? What about God helping those who help themselves? Waiting for divine intervention becomes one more reason for being inactive, inactivity creates apathy, and apathy self-perpetuates.
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On Apr 5, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Vera Crowell wrote:
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> I care about you wayyy too much to let you continue to wallow in your bliss. We need to make a time to meet so that I can explain deliverance to you. No one who truly understands God's deliverance and how it happens could possibly use 'deliverance' and 'apathy' in the same sentence.
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>> Quite powerful. Thank you for this. I will definitely be showing it to students later in the week.
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>> Although, one could also question the religiosity advocated in the film as also being a contributor to this societal breakdown. I believe that one can easily argue that generations of waiting on God for deliverance from every situation has led to apathy. Surely such total reliance had its place as a comfort when African slaves had absolutely no tools of empowerment other than their bodies, but now, however, far too often I hear on a daily basis from the most at risk of students of how Jesus will take care of every situation. So, say in the case of not passing a test, the excuse is that failure was what Jesus intended. Therefore, ultimately, religion becomes another crutch; another of the myriad means of shifting personal responsibility.
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>> Still, this is a great effort at activism. Some of the images in the film provide a great historical references to the current situation with the semi-literate members of the Tea Party. Then, like now, the same ilk were convoluting blackness with communism, and as anti-American.
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>>> This video was created to inspire young at-risk African-Americans not to fall prey to some of the problems they face in society.
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