Over the past semester or before, I have wondered and deeply struggled with knowing what it would mean to appropriate theology. As I repeatedly came into contact with black theology in the classroom, I worried about how to show respect and acknowledge that I do not own this theology nor the experience in which it is etymologically grounded. While I am still wrestling with much of this, I have found a starting place:
"The responsibility of listening and telling is a direct ethical consequence of our acts of silencing, ignoring, and violently opposing realities and experiences. As a moral response, listening acts as a tool of resistance and moral redirection by building on three important ethical tasks: paying attention, sharing sacred space, and affirming other histories." (p38)
from Black Queer Ethics, Family, and Philosophical Imagination, by Thelathia Nikki Young.
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