{"id":1738,"date":"2013-10-31T13:31:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T17:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oshetablogs.wordpress.com\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2013-10-31T13:31:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T17:31:17","slug":"a-scary-invitation-halloween-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/shalominthecity\/2013\/10\/a-scary-invitation-halloween-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"A Scary Invitation: Happy Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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So, on Monday, I promised y\u2019all a bold proposal. <\/a>And seriously, this idea sat in my gut all week because I knew the moment I acted on it, I was going to get all types of sick. SO, I found every reason to avoid writing this post!\u00a0 I even cleaned out parts of my fridge.\u00a0 For real. Racial reconciliation is some scary, scary business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Happy Halloween.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the deal, if you\u2019re a black woman and you don\u2019t feel safe to talk about this stuff with your friends, and you\u2019ve NEVER tried, then baby, the onus is on you.<\/p>\n

On me.\u00a0 The wimp over here writing beautifully about wanting to be \u201cwhite\u201d\u00a0 but scared to death to tell it to her white friends\u2019 face.<\/p>\n

So\u2026<\/p>\n

Remember how I pointed you to Christena Cleveland\u2019s suggestion to view \u201c12 Years a Slave\u201d with a cross racial audience and using it as a springboard for conversation and reconciliation?<\/a>\u00a0 Honestly,\u00a0 that\u2019s too much for me.\u00a0 I struggle with static images in history books on the brutality of the slave trade, so obviously, I can\u2019t handle a whole movie.<\/p>\n

Now I could wimp out again, but last Thursday when I was processing \u201cSometimes I wish I were White\u201d with Jesus, I asked him to show me what to do with all this emotion around race and beauty and then\u2026 I got\u00a0 Redbox free rental code.<\/p>\n

Thinking, \u201cyes! I can get a chick-flick for my vulnerability hangover\u201d,\u00a0 I rushed to the closest Redbox to find this documentary:<\/p>\n

Dark Girls:<\/p>\n