once upon a time I had a conversation with a "worldly" person from such an area and he was surprised that I was a JW because he thought it was a "Black religion." (I'm a ghost, so obviously I'm white ;)
That gets my vote for "Post of the Day"
Theotis French & Ray Franz's Disfellowshipping
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undercover
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minimus
I say weird in a kind way, Sylvia. Your views always relate to racial issues. I shouldn't have said you're weird. My first thought was you're racist but I don't think you really are. I think your background and experiences have made you an overly sensitive person when it comes to color. And that's too bad because I believe you're an intelligent sweet lady but you've got racial hangups.
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Olin Moyles Ghost
Again, I'm not sure how the congregation boundaries were drawn in Gadsden/Etowah County the early 1980s, but the city of Gadsden has a much higher African-American population than the county as a whole. See http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts?_event=Search&geo_id=&_geoContext=&_street=&_county=gadsden&_cityTown=gadsden&_state=04000US01&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&pctxt=fph&pgsl=010
According to the 2000 census, Gadsden was about 35% Black. That's a sizeable minority community.
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JWoods
Again, I don't have specific knowledge about Gadsden Alabama, but it could be one of those cases where the congregation has a sizeable African-American population. In such a case, it would not be surprising that there would be several Black elders and that one of the Black elders would end up chairing Ray's J.C.
To me, that seems like the simplest explanation for all of this.
And this gets my vote for the "beacon of reality for the day" on this subject.
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undercover
And this gets my vote for the "beacon of reality for the day" on this subject.
Aw, c'mon James...just go ahead call it "new light". You want to, I know it.
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minimus
Imagine if Franz lived in a Harlem congregation and a black man was the chairman of the judicial committee! I magine if the other 2 elders were black men too!
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snowbird
Your views always relate to racial issues.
Come, now.
Not always.
Sylvia
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JWoods
Actually, sometimes the "old light" makes more sense than the "new light", UC...
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minimus
You know what I'm saying.... BTW, did you call yourself Snowbird just to make us think you were white when you first started posting?