Ed. Note: Despite being posted on YouTube, this is only the audio from Rev. Massingale’s lecture.

Rev. Bryan Massingale, professor of theological ethics at Marquette University and author of Racial Justice and the Catholic Church (Orbis, 2010), gives this powerful lecture at the College of the Holy Cross on October 28, 2014.

Fr. Massingale is a noted authority on issues of social and racial justice. He has addressed numerous national Catholic conferences and lectured at colleges and universities across the nation. A priest in the Milwaukee Diocese since 1983, he has served as a consultant to the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops. And he has authored more than 70 articles, book chapters, and book reviews, appearing in scholarly and pastoral journals.

In this talk, Fr. Massingale begins with a roll of some of the unarmed black men who have been killed by police, security guards and private citizens since Trayvon Martin’s shooting in 2012. He explains unconscious racial bias as a malformation in our culture that makes the actions of these shooters seem reasonable. And he calls upon people of faith to reflect on the challenge of solidarity, to go beyond their comfort zone to be their brothers’ and sisters’ keeper.

This lecture, presented by the Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, is one of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity.

6 thoughts on “RACISM: Unconscious racial bias & the challenge of solidarity, a lecture by Rev. Bryan Massingale, STD”

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  3. Wilton Vought, radio producer of Essential Dissent, Ed Nizalowski of Peace Action and I will be at the Ralph Bunche Park (Isaiah Wall) 43rd and 1st Ave at 10 AM tomorrow to record the press conference and interview faster later in the morning at the UN. Wilton will offer it on is Essential Dissent radio show sometime soon. jack

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  4. An analysis by a respected Ohio attorney who has spent a lifetime observing the machinations of our risk-taking national leadership.

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  5. What will historians ask if they survive this MAGA MADNESS- 50 years from now? Will they be appalled that Americans sat back and accepted the plan to kill and destroy the people & land of Iran? Why is MAGA so quiet now that they have been betrayed by Trump? What happened to the call by MAGA to move away from interfering in other nations actions? And the promise of their leader to stay out of foreign entanglements? Trump and MAGA are now eager to destroy other lands and people Should MAGA folks be angry? Should they be in the streets because of this betrayal?

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