Comments on: Remarks Made at the Ouachita Baptist University Faculty Meeting on January 15, 2007

By: Being Racist, Being Angerist « Live Granades

Being Racist, Being Angerist « Live Granades — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:39:26 +0000

[...] year, I read what Johnny Wink, a former professor of mine, had to say about Martin Luther King, Jr. and racism. One part completely changed the way I think about racism. I wanted that young woman across the [...]

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:51:08 +0000

Remission is a great term for us individually. I hope that I live long enough for it to be one we can apply to society at large.

By: Jacqueline

Jacqueline — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:24:56 +0000

That’s brilliant. Thank you so much. My only regret is that I didn’t have the privilege of hearing it, rather than reading it, but I’m very glad that you saw how good it would be to post it.

By: katre

katre — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:26:11 +0000

That’s powerful stuff. I think the part I like most is the term “remission”. I grew up in Tennessee. My parents are the nicest and least prejudiced people I can imagine, and they tried to teach that to me. And yet, still, when I turn the corner too quickly or I look deep in my heart, I catch my racism coming out of remission. It’s a lifelong battle, and I hope I can keep it down, but I can always sense it there, waiting to come back.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:03:52 +0000

It is in the recognition of that within ourselves that is ungodly and wrong that the Lord Jesus can step in to take a stand first in our heart, then in our mind, then later in our public lives for the side of right. Thank you, Dr. Wink, for recognizing something inside yourself as a teen on the bus and for moving aside for the Lord to shine through you.