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I can almost smell the white privilege in those happy white jehovah witnesses
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https://preview.redd.it/qlxkw4vt0bt71.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=6722937b2a489c542546bf845972c1d71dabb2af

Here was my response:

I had a discussion about this very image with a Jehovah's Witness who was preaching on the sidewalk. Because, note the message: You have the single black mother. She is getting her sustenance via her children (WIC, TANF, Section 8, etc.). Off in the distance, barely noticeable Latino-esque laborers toil to bring more food. The white couple is walking away from the scene, the childless white woman looks on the black woman with her kids smiling approval, the white man has his back to us, already "out of the picture". (The comment by the OP about "white privilege" is just 2021 anti-white trendiness. As an interpretation of this image, it's dumb.)

Then notice the plainly manipulative scriptural quotes: God wants you to rely on the government for your material wants yadda yadda righteous blah blah utopia.

The whole thing is insidious as fuck and plainly agenda-serving propaganda.

The first time I saw this brochure, a couple of older black ladies were standing on the sidewalk in Baltimore and handing them out. I was walking my dog and asked one of them if she would watch my dog while I ran into the library for a minute. She said sure and when I came out we had a nice conversation at the end of which she gave me a phone number (I don't remember for what) and wrote it down on a brochure. So I kept the brochure and had a chance to look at what it was saying and became very intrigued. I found it very disturbing, really, I decided the next time I came across Jehovah's Witnesses, I was going to ask them about it and what they thought about that interpretation.

A few weeks later, on a cold winter morning, I was coming out of a convenience store with a cup of coffee and a breakfast sandwich I'd gotten for a homeless man shivering at the bus stop. I had talked to him before. Due to his mental condition, he should never have been left in the street. Anyway, I talked to him for a bit, and over his shoulder I noticed two Jehovah's Witnesses watching our interaction as they set up their table. It was an older black guy and a young black guy who looked like he was directly from Africa. The older guy was acting as the experienced mentor and the young guy was plainly not feeling down with the whole idea of handing out brochures on the sidewalk.When the homeless guy and I finished talking, I walked over to their table and looked for this brochure. It was there, so I asked them about it.

The older guy was playing the role of wise elder for the benefit of his young partner, you know, understandable. And we ended up having a long conversation in which my charitable act toward the homeless man was examined in light of my interpretation of the image. At the end of the conversation, the older guy said he was going to contact headquarters to now raise his own concerns about the image and message.

All the Jehovah's Witnesses I met were extremely decent people. The impression I got was that they were being preyed upon by their organization for political ends they were unaware of (and probably for money).

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