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easy to share — we’ve already
made progress,” Goolsby said.
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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
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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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