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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
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Originally Posted by StillStanding
DB defending the hood! Nice!
CC1 is letting one bad experience taint his view. I lived in Memphis for about 5 years and I enjoyed my time there for the most part. There are indeed parts of Memphis to avoid just as there are parts of Nashville to avoid. There did seem to be high racial tension while I lived in Memphis.
I now live in Nashville, and I must say that it seems to be a much safer city as a whole with a lot less racial tension.
Our cue to leave Memphis was when the school board (newly black majority) voted to give the multi-million dollar contract of computerizing the schools to a young black guy who started his new company three months before with very little capital. Financial stability didn't matter, ability to actually perform the job didn't matter, and a history of any success didn't matter. All that mattered was that his skin was black! Who did he replace? A small company named IBM!
What ended up happening was the black guy sub-contracted the work to IBM, costing the school district the extra money to give this guy his cut! The black guy was smart! It was the school board that was dumb!
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Not just one bad experience!
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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