calendar January 19, 2010 in Congregations, News

Bucks church hosts race relations forum

Each year on the day before the holiday commemorating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Family of God Lutheran in Buckingham hosts a forum on race relations. The collective effort of the NAACP of Bucks County, the Peace Center, the Bucks County Committee for Interracial Harmony, the Bucks County Human Relations Council has been held since the 1980s.

Here’s the start of an article in The Intelligencer:

 

Last year, Ronald Moody’s 16-year-old daughter was playing with friends when one playmate asked her if she was black. When Jessica confirmed she was, the girl, who was visiting from out of town, told Jessica one of her teachers back home told her to avoid black people because they might hurt her.

Jessica asked the girl, "You know me, don’t you? You don’t think I would hurt you, do you?"

That simple interaction summed up a discussion about race Sunday afternoon at the Family of God Lutheran Church in Buckingham. A collective effort of the NAACP of Bucks County, the Peace Center, the Bucks County Committee for Interracial Harmony, the Bucks County Human Relations Council and attended by Bucks County Commissioner Diane Marseglia, it has become an annual consortium held the day before Martin Luther King Jr. Day since the 1980s.

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