Salvation Army Issues Sorry, Not Sorry Statement, Withdraws Racist Guide “For Appropriate Review”
This statement from the Salvation Army may have been intended to calm donors, but frankly, it is cause for even more alarm.

The Salvation Army has come under fire for its vile, un-American, and racist “antiracist” materials.  In response, the organization issued a confusing mix of a defiant non-apology coupled with acknowledgment that the criticism is warranted in that the most offensive material has been “withdrawn for appropriate review.”

The Salvation Army writes (archive link):

But although we remain committed to serving everyone in need—regardless of their beliefs, backgrounds, or lifestyle—some individuals and groups have recently attempted to mislabel our organization to serve their own agendas. They have claimed that we believe our donors should apologize for their skin color, that The Salvation Army believes America is an inherently racist society, and that we have abandoned our Christian faith for one ideology or another.

Those claims are simply false, and they distort the very goal of our work.

The truth is that The Salvation Army believes that racism is fundamentally incompatible with Christianity, and that we are called by God to work toward a world where all people are loved, accepted, and valued. Our positional statement on racism makes this clear. These beliefs and goals are critically important because we know that racism exists, and we are determined to do everything the Bible asks of us to overcome it.

The Salvation Army occasionally publishes internal study guides on various complex topics to help foster positive conversations and grace-filled reflection among Salvationists. By openly discussing these issues, we always hope to encourage the development of a more thoughtful organization that is better positioned to support those in need. But no one is being told how to think. Period.

In this case, the guide “Let’s Talk About Racism,” was issued as a voluntary resource, but it has since become a focus of controversy. We have done our best to provide accurate information, but unfortunately, some have chosen to ignore those efforts. At the same time, International Headquarters realized that certain aspects of the guide may need to be clarified.

Consequently, for both reasons, the International Social Justice Commission has now withdrawn the guide for appropriate review.

I’m not going to get into a religious debate about the Bible or God’s will here because that is not the point of the criticism directed at the Salvation Army. The point of Critical Race training, as with all Marxist ideologies, after all, is the replacement of God with government, but I don’t think the Salvation Army understands that what they are imbibing—and yes, telling their Salvationists to think—is rooted in racist cum Marxist ideology.

As I previously noted, the “ Salvation Army .pdf entitled ‘Let’s Talk About . . . Racism’ (archive link) is a 67-page screed railing against America; it’s a document that is riddled with vile anti-American lies, insulting racist stereotypes, and woke Marxist drivel.”  So it’s a good thing that the document has been withdrawn for . . . checks notes . . . ‘clarification.’

It doesn’t take one long, however, on the Salvation Army’s website to discover that the organization is steeped in the divisive, racist “antiracist” ideology.

And I do mean steeped.  At one point on its webpage—not in the problematic “internal” document—the organization, in the grand tradition of Chairman Mao, emerges from its struggle session to announce that it has been racist, is probably still racist, and contributes to systemic racism.  But gee, they will do better.  Okay, they don’t put it quite like that, but that’s the gist of it (archive link).

The section is, befitting of its struggle session origin, entitled, “Our Confession Acknowledgment.”

While many Salvationists have acted firmly and courageously against racism, The Salvation Army acknowledges with regret, that Salvationists have sometimes shared in the sins of racism and conformed to economic, organizational and social pressures that perpetuate racism. The Salvation Army is committed to fight against racism wherever it is experienced and will speak into societies around the world wherever we encounter it.

This statement, by the way, is taken in full from the document the Salvation Army’s sorry, not sorry bizarro statement claims redeems them from critics, their “positional statement on racism” (archive link).

It’s not redeeming at all; in fact, its very existence is an insult to thinking Americans. Who doesn’t oppose (actual) racism? What “positional statement on racism” is going to say anything other than that the organization opposes racism?

The bigger question is why the Salvation Army feels the need to issue such a statement in the first place. Why it needs to be four pages of text. Why it needs to include the above “acknowledgement” of their self-proclaimed rampant racism and their deep sorrow it ever happened and their promise to do better. Why they are so proud of their acknowledgment and promise to be more “antiracist” that they plastered it on their website for all the world to see.

In what world is this not bizarre as . . . erm, all get out?

In the world that proponents of this toxic, divisive, anti-and un-American CRT brew lives. To them, it’s perfectly normal to claim America is irredeemably racist, that every white person (including those still in the womb) has contributed to that “systemic racism,” and that we need to publicly self-flagellate over it as we internalize our self-hatred over an immutable genetic characteristic. Yeah, no.

Additionally, the Salvation Army’s website—again not the offensive document that drew justifiably harsh criticism—states that its “Commitment” is:

. . . to combatting [sic] racism and its impacts at an organizational, individual, and societal level. This includes providing robust systems to report and discuss racism, continuing to make efforts to ensure ethnic diversity in leadership roles, and ultimately becoming a more welcoming, diverse organization that stands as a model for inclusion and non-discrimination.

Presumably the offensive and deeply problematic “Let’s Talk About Racism” guide was part of this “robust” system to “discuss racism.”  Who knows how “racism” is forced/encouraged to be “reported” in the organization, but based on what we know about the divisive, paranoia- and hate-inducing effects of this evil training, my guess is egg-shell walking, Keiths and Karens pettily reporting “offensive” racist blah blah to earn back-pats, self-and other-hate are sky high in the Salvation Army culture.  What corporate culture can withstand this level of hate yourself, but hate and distrust (and report) your colleagues even more, insanity?

But I digress.  Other helpful tips are provided in the document to which the Salvation Army points in its sorry, not sorry drivel as the final word on the topic of how they view and treat racism.

So let’s take a look at more of that document (linked above); the following is from the “Practical Responses” section:

Ah, yes, “sorrow and repentance” are needed . .. if you buy into the absolute crazy that simply being born white is a sin for which to be sorrowful and repent.  Who knows what guarding against the “infiltration of racism” looks like?  Or even means.

Here’s the bottom half of that page so you can marvel at the call from a charitable organization for political action on behalf of “racial justice”:

This statement from the Salvation Army may have been intended to calm donors, but frankly, it is cause for even more alarm.

Seriously, this organization seems deeply immersed in the racist crazy of “antiracists” like Ibram Kendi, whose black supremacist manifesto is recommended reading by the Salvation Army’s racist guide and who infamously stated that being “antiracist” means accepting that “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”

If there were any actual investigative journalists still working in the U.S., it might be interesting to see if the Salvation Army has delved this far into CRT and is providing its resources based on race and “the need for present discrimination to overcome past discrimination” . . . at the expense of present-day needy white people.  That’s a report I would be interested in reading/viewing.