If apologising on behalf of your ancestors for being slavers and racists, if self-flagellation over your inherited white-supremacist theft of Indigenous land, if the fear of being an unwitting participant in Systemic Racism hasn’t driven you into a nervous breakdown yet, never fear, this will aid you in your journey into gibbering incoherence.
You can now admit to being an Environmental Racist. Justin Welby has set a good example by doing so. Along with dozens of other lesser, if equally barmy, bishops.
Hurry! Before it’s too late! Don’t miss your chance to admit to Environmental Racism by signing this document today. Every signatory will receive a free plank with which to castigate himself. .
ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM – WHEN #BLACKLIVES DON’T MATTER
(Dear Bishop , if you would like to sign please send your Name and Title to Canon Rachel Mash at rmash@mweb.co.za)
Black lives are disproportionately affected by police brutality; COVID-19 sweeps through crowded vulnerable communities unable to socially distance; toxic dump sites are placed next to poor communities of Black people; indigenous people are forced off their land.
The world is slow to respond to climate change, hanging on to an increasingly precarious and unjust economic system. It is predominantly Black lives that are being impacted by drought, flooding, storms and sea level rise. The delayed global response to climate injustice gives the impression that #blacklivesdontmatter. Without urgent action Black lives will continue to be the most impacted, being dispossessed from their lands and becoming climate refugees.
We stand at a Kairos moment – in order to fight environmental injustice , we must also fight racial injustice.
In the words of Archbishop Tutu “If you are neutral in times of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
The Anglican Communion Environmental Network (ACEN) calls attention to environmental racism. We issue this urgent statement today, June 19 2020, a day known as Juneteenth in the United States, marking and remembering the official end of slavery in that country in 1865.
