FIVE QUESTIONS with the Rev. Joseph A. Darby
On this celebration of the Martin Luther King holiday, you might find a new Better South interview with the Rev. Joseph A. Darby of Charleston to be interesting. A few highlights:
- On a progressive agenda: “A truly progressive platform should also speak to how good schools and good jobs strengthen and create safer communities, spur quality housing, promote stable families, and foster individual independence and responsibility. Those aren’t conservative values, they’re American values.”
- On building a better future: “We’ve gotten comfortable and lost our shared focus on progress, our willingness to sacrifice for others and our sense of urgency, and haven’t done a good job of energizing new generations.”
- On how far we have to go: “Successful and enduring movements for change require those in positions of power to share power and welcome new ideas, and we have miles to go in that regard.”
posted by Andy Brack @ 12:18 PM
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When Pastor Darby speaks about a progressive agenda for the educational system, I wish there would be some way that the white elephant that has been exiting the public school system since the 1960's could be made aware of the effect it has had on our public school system. Loss of ideas, loss of support, loss of power brokers, loss of people who want to continue to finanically support our schhols and now want to take a hand out to place children in private schools from underfunded public schools.
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