{"id":1344,"date":"2013-05-16T14:22:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T18:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2013-05-16T23:07:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T03:07:21","slug":"play-that-funky-music-white-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/?p=1344","title":{"rendered":"Play That Funky Music, White Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

While making cupcakes and washing dishes, I have listened to my little kitchen radio chase down stories like this<\/a>\u00a0(on the factory collapse in\u00a0Bangladesh),\u00a0and, today, more of the same<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0this time from Cambodia.<\/p>\n

Think global, and act local? \u00a0The local and the global are all intertwined, as proven by Art Pope’s little empire. \u00a0Sell products outsourced to poor, unregulated countries to poor people in your own state, then use the money to push through more policies that weaken the rights of workers in the remaining industries and services<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, if you are really smart, you also pool big money to fund “ethics” or “spirituality” initiatives<\/a> that remain safely vague, ahistorical and apolitical. \u00a0You fund scholars who are either afraid or ambitious, or both, to pretend that the Gospel does not call for this sort of work<\/a>, right now, right here.<\/p>\n

So, I am going to continue asking my beloved students, former and present, as we keep working here in the beautiful state of North Carolina, how our baptism allows us to crisscross racially, toward really, really real reconciliation and lovely, lovely loving leadership. \u00a0This goes more radical, more deep even than buying fair trade coffee and planting community gardens.<\/p>\n

Truly play that funky music, white boy. \u00a0Be brave.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/object>
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While making cupcakes and washing dishes, I have listened to my little kitchen radio chase down stories like this\u00a0(on the factory collapse in\u00a0Bangladesh),\u00a0and, today, more of the same\u00a0–\u00a0this time from Cambodia. Think global, and act local? \u00a0The local and the global are all intertwined, as proven by Art Pope’s little empire. \u00a0Sell products outsourced to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,10,8],"tags":[144,147,145,138,146,149,16,148],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-ethics","category-organizing","tag-an-earnest-note-to-my-students","tag-baptism","tag-christian-solidarity","tag-ethics-2","tag-karl-barth","tag-leadership","tag-north-carolina","tag-reconciliation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EotM-lG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profligategrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}