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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2016 Divided: ‘This is not a conversation of blame’ WORLD IN BRIEF Associated Press easy to share — we’ve already made progress,” Goolsby said. Continued from Page 1A Then, two years ago, the Rev. Scott Dickison, pastor of the white church, and the Rev. James Goolsby, pastor of the black church, met over lunch and an idea took shape: They’d try to ind a way the congre- gations, neighbors for so long, could become friends. They’d try to bridge the stubborn divide of race. They are taking up this work against a tumultuous backdrop, including the much-publicized deaths of blacks at the hands of law enforcement and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. Next month, they will lead joint discussions with church members on racism in the his- tory of the U.S., and also in the history of their congregations. “This is not a conversation of blame, but of acceptance and moving forward,” Goolsby said. ‘Segregated hours’ Like many American insti- tutions, houses of worship have largely been separated by race, to the point that the Rev. Mar- tin Luther King Jr. called Sun- day mornings “one of the most segregated hours.” Recently, several denominations, from the Episcopal Church to the Southern Baptist Convention, have tried to look critically at their past actions going back centuries. In the early 1800s, in Bap- tist churches of the South, whites and blacks often wor- shipped together, but blacks were restricted to galleries or the back of the sanctuary. Even- tually, black populations started growing faster in many com- munities. Whites, made uneasy by the imbalance, responded by splitting up the congregations. This was apparently the case for First Baptist in Macon, which built a separate church for ‘Strength to Love’ AP Photo/Branden Camp Parishioners clap during a worship service at the First Baptist Church, a predominantly African-American con- gregation, in Macon, Ga. blacks in 1845, then inalized the separation two decades later soon after the Civil War ended. Goolsby and Dickison said their respective churches were enthusiastic about plans to work together, under the auspices of the New Baptist Covenant, an organization formed by former President Jimmy Carter to unite Baptists. Yet excitement mixed with apprehension, since the effort would inevitably require “some challenging conversations,” Dickison said, including a re-ex- amination of the oficial church history, which had been recorded in mostly benign terms, with almost no recognition of racism. “We need to go through this kind of conversion experience of confession, of repentance and of reconciliation. We need to have that when it comes to race, not just in the country but within the church,” Dickison said. Show of support Goolsby recalled that after the massacre last year at the his- toric black church in Charleston, South Carolina, he was outside a store, awaiting his wife, when Dickison called. “Scott shared how he felt, how he was struggling with what he would share with his congregation,” Goolsby said. Dickson asked how he could show support. “I said, ‘We’re already doing it,”’ Goolsby said. “The mere fact he thought to call me was huge.” The stakes were even more personal months later, when the white church invited black church members for a youth trip to Orlando. Goolsby’s teenage son was among those invited. But Goolsby had considered Flor- ida a danger ever since Tray- von Martin, an unarmed, black 17-year-old, was fatally shot in Sanford by George Zimmer- man, a neighborhood watch vol- unteer who was later acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges. The pastor could not let his son go on the trip. “If you put a hoodie on him,” he said, “he looks just like Trayvon.” The concerns of anxious black parents had been much in the news, but the white church members hadn’t had to confront the issue directly until Goolsby raised it. After reassurances from a white chaperone, Goolsby allowed his son and the other young people to participate. “The fact that that was so Dickison strode into the basement hall of his church with a box under one arm. Inside, were copies of “Strength to Love,” a collection of sermons and writings by King. The book was at the center of classes at the white church that Dickison organized in preparation for the joint talks on racism next month. This class was held on the Sunday in July after the fatal police shootings of Alton Ster- ling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota, and the fatal ambush on white Dallas police oficers. With the stiling humidity of a Georgia summer building outside, Dickison launched into a discussion of King’s sermon on the Good Samaritan, about despised groups and showing mercy. “We have our tribes. We see ourselves over and against oth- ers,” he said, then asked church members to relect. One man said when you reach out to someone from another group, “you’re perceived as unpatriotic,” or disloyal. A woman said she was upset to see some disrespect of the police. “They rush toward danger when others run,” she said. The next night, the black church hosted the city’s Black Lives Matter vigil, marking the tragedies of the preceding week. Clergy from across the city illed the pulpit. Goolsby and Dickison stood together to speak. Dickison compared rac- ism to “a cancer that roams inside the body of this nation, and yes, even in the body of Christ.” Goolsby urged people to maintain hope “in spite of our circumstances,” and he added, “We know there will be change.” Then both men said, “Amen.” Perfetto: Owned stores in Montana before returning Continued from Page 1A from a business called the Bar- gain Box in Orlando, Flor- ida, where he said $1 prices on clothing brought in droves of people who then started browsing other items. “I think Goodwill has high prices for clothing,” he said. “We didn’t want to be that way … We wanted to give people a place where they can come in and buy some clothing at a reasonable price, and a buck is reasonable.” Originally from Pittsburgh, Perfetto joined the military at age 17, serving two years in the U.S. Navy and another two in the Army. After getting out in 1978, he said, he left the Vir- ginia on a Greyhound bus with $75 in his pocket to join an old military friend in San Diego. Prior to thrifting, Perfetto was a special education assistant and substitute teacher in the San Diego Uniied School District. He still substitutes locally. Deal hunter He started his career of thrifting in 1987, selling base- ball cards. He eventually grad- uated to buying entire stor- age lockers, and eventually worked for Kobey’s Swap Meet, a large outdoor market in San Diego. Perfetto would eventually run his own thrift stores in Flor- ence and Shelby, Montana, near the Canadian border. About four months ago, Perfetto said, he and his girlfriend, feeling land- locked and isolated, decided to move back to Oregon. “I’m going to be 60 next year,” Perfetto said. “I’m not chasing money. I don’t want to chase money. I would prefer giving money away to people who need it, or to organizations that need it.” — Edward Stratton False report of gunman at Los Angeles airport causes panic LOS ANGELES — Reports of a gunman opening ire that turned out to be false caused panicked evacuations at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday night, while lights to and from the airport saw major delays. A search through terminals brought no evidence of a gun- man or shots ired, Los Angeles police spokesman Andy Nei- man said. The reports were spurred by loud noises only, and police were still investigating to ind the source of them, Nei- man said. Airport oficials said that a person wearing a Zorro cos- tume was detained during the incident, but it wasn’t yet clear whether the person had any connection to the evacuation. The incident stirred chaos as hundreds of people rushed from terminals on to sidewalks or the tarmac. And it left a mess with three terminals shut down, roads closed and lights held in the air and on the ground. All terminals and roads into the airport had been reopened by 11 p.m. PDT, about two hours after the initial reports, ofi- cials said. But massive backup faced travelers in their cars and in security lines. Passengers who led had to be rescreened through security. Trump plans immigration talk as questions remain WASHINGTON — Donald Trump says he’ll deliver a detailed speech on his proposal to crack down on illegal immi- gration on Wednesday in Arizona — but it’s anyone’s guess what he might say. The announcement came late Sunday in a tweet by the GOP presidential nominee after days of wavering — and at least one canceled speech — on a question central to his campaign: Whether he would, as he said in November, use a “deportation force” to eject the estimated 11 million peo- ple in the U.S. illegally. On Sunday, led by vice presiden- tial running mate Mike Pence, Trump’s surrogates fanned out across the televised talk shows to reiterate other parts of his proposal but none could answer that question. And they wouldn’t say whether it was worrisome that such a conse- quential proposal remained unclear so close to the Nov. 8 election. In one case, the chairman of the Republican National Com- mittee refused to speak for the GOP nominee at all. “I just don’t speak for Donald Trump,” Reince Priebus said Sunday. It was a striking look at Trump’s leadership of a team he had said would help drive him to victory against Democrat Hillary Clinton. On Syria, Democrats look to delect the conversation WASHINGTON — In his speech at the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump made six references to the conlict in Syria, pointing to the war-ravaged nation as a source of much of the world’s turmoil, particularly immigra- tion and extremism. A week later at the Democratic convention, Hillary Clinton made not one reference to Syria. The conlict in Syria remains a major conundrum for both President Barack Obama and Clinton, his former secretary of state. With a irm reluctance to enter another U.S. war in the Middle East, the United States has focused its military efforts on ighting the Islamic State group in northern Syria and in Iraq while pursuing so-far failed diplomatic efforts to end the civil war. Now entering its sixth year, the Syria conlict has killed more than a quarter million people, displaced some 11 mil- lion, and has turned the once-cosmopolitan, secular country into a hive of factions with dangerously competing interests. 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