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...liked the character of Rev. Peter Gomes' portrayal of the ideals and higher norms underlying the proposal he initiated--in recent years at least--for recognition by Harvard University and our community of those sons of Harvard who died to defend the perpetuation of American slavocracy. Who died, that is, under personal fidelity to the secessionist government of the Confederacy and to its anti-democratic and anti-humanitarian values and beliefs that formed the rationale and soul of American slavocracy...
...liked the character of Rev. Gomes' portrayal because at its core is a belief-and-goal that the world we live in must at some point-in-time achieve and institutionalize. Namely, the goal of Christian forgiveness...
Without this goal, Rev. Gomes is telling us, there can never be and will never be on this earth anything approaching a viable humanism among the myriad contending groups who inhabit this earth--ethnic and racial groups, religious groups, linguistic groups, nationality groups, gender groups, etc. There is no notion of a viable humanism shaping the interrelations in today's world between contending groups like Azerbaijanis and Armenians, Jews and Palestinians, Tutsi and Hutu, Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants (in Northern Ireland), Turks and Kurds, etc., without the reign of Rev. Gomes' goal of Christian forgiveness. And he formulates this...
...there is no hesitancy whatsoever toward that awesome goal of Christian forgiveness, toward the character of Rev. Gomes' proposal. But I break with Rev. Gomes in regard to operationalizing this goal in the form he proposes. Why this opposition? Because there must be a principle of reciprocity at the very foundation of any serious endeavor by any of us to institutionalize that awesome goal of Christian forgiveness. The millions of injured souls--of spiritually ravaged and smashed human beings--victimized by the white Americans who controlled and benefited from American slavocracy, have no moral obligation to, as it were, make...
...Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. He said this about segregation and discrimination: "Let us never succumb to the temptation of believing that legislation and judicial decrees play only a minor role in solving this problem. Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless." (Quotation from Strength to Love...