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moderation and hope for real solutions, but for the
personal gretness he displayed. The memorial march
here was awe-inspiring, and very large numbers
of whites joined in.
I have been maliciously amused lately by the
consternation over Forman
s demand upon the churches
for half a billion separations. Some people inquired why
our (Episcopal) church was the first to be forced with
the bill, and I had to reply that (as the established
chuch in colonial America) they were also the first
to condone and justify slavery )not only Negro,
but Indian and indentured white); that the chuch
at one time inherited and managed a slave worked
plantation in the West Indies, and that it had
not been at all forward in opporing the de facto
slavery in large area of the U.S. from 1863 to
the (painfully recent) awakening of conscience in
that regard. You will of course realize that any
effort to honor this reparative obligation by any of
the churches would involve immediate loss of
revenue, and probably many more rifts in the already
shaky unity of Christiandom - note the formation of
the "Anglican" Church as a splinter from our own
by "Bishop" Deas, in revolt over the integrationist
policies of the central Episcopal organizaiton. Obviously
hatred, fear, and insecurity are much more
powerful in their working thant the traditionally
"Christian" virtues.