Just read on the Drudge Report that the Salvation Army wants you to apologize for being "white" when you drop coins in their kettles outside of any business that allows them to be there.

I have made my last donation to the Salvation Army.

I told the local "fish wrapper" that I was not renewing because everything they published was all the things caucasiians should apologize for.

I told them to get their revenue from the people of color.

I have donated to the SA for many years as I agreed with what they were doing.

This turn for them is disgusting.

Not another cent. Not another second of my time.

Salvation Army is a church and I never donate to any church that I don't belong to, (with the exception of St Vinnie's thrift store)

I'm not seeing any of this "great good" that the Salvation Army is doing. At least with St Vinnies, what they raise goes to locals in need and they aren't paying high priced "administration", they are volunteers working there.

Instead of giving money to charity to feed or cloth the homeless, I'd rather rent out a Food Truck or Deliver piles of cloths to a Homeless Camp with many tents. For $500 I can feed or cloth (used) everyone, while the professional operations will spend Thousands on salary's and only 10% on the people the charity was designed to help.

please go to salvation army's own site and their newsroom where they debunk this claim salvationarmyusa

.org/usn/story/ the-salvation-armys-response-to-false-claims-on-the-topic-of-racism/

The SA was & after reading their rebuttal (thanks Small potatoes) still is one of the few charities that I actively support. I've always been impressed with how well run the 2 SAs in my area have been run. I know for sure that both of these local SAs have helped numerous tenants of mine.

NOPE - Not fake news at all...

"The Salvation Army, best known for its red kettle donation stands at Christmas, has released a racial reconciliation curriculum urging its members to apologize for past racial misdeeds."

This is where we need John [MI]. He is a good fact finder.

I looked up what Small potatoes referred to and read it. The SA is disputing the claim. It is also interesting to read their program that they make reference to in their rebuttal. However, when I read that, it made me think that the claim could be true.

Alan/CA: ""The Salvation Army, best known for its red kettle donation stands at Christmas, has released a racial reconciliation curriculum urging its members to apologize for past racial misdeeds."

I did go to the website of The Salvation Army (TSA) and read TSA's Response to False Claims on the Topic of Racism. TSA's International Positional Statement on Racism linked there was published in 2017.

In 2018, there was a new sheriff in town. Brian Peddle, became the 21st General, CEO and international leader of The Salvation Army on August 3, 2018. It was under Gen. Peddle's tutelage that new training, created through TSA's International Social Justice Commission, was disseminated internally to field officers and territorial commanders. The "voluntary" resource guide “Let’s Talk About Racism,” which has since become a focus of controversy, was created by TSA's Social Justice Commission. Due to blowback, the "Let’s Talk About Racism" resource has now been withdrawn for review (which withdrawal has been acknowledged in TSA link posted above). Clearly, TSA is trying to walk it back.

Not to steal Bill's (NC) thunder but I researched this and sadly there is some truth to the allegation. I always knew the SA to be non-political and efficient with their funds. Earlier this year the SA internally released 2 memos about this topic, referred to in the Blaze story pasted below. If you go to the Blaze com you can find the story and click the links - but one of them was apparently removed since last week. Now the SA is recanting somewhat.

Here's the story:

Salvation Army responds to critics of woke messaging, backpedals by withdrawing anti-ra cism guide for 'appropriate review'

Chris Enloe 4-5 minutes

The Salvation Army published a lengthy response late last week after numerous reports indicated the Christian charity organization had embraced wo ke corporate messaging.

What is the background?

The controversy surrounds two internal Salvation Army documents, a guidebook titled "Let's Talk About Rac ism" and another called the "Study Guide on Rac ism."

The National Review reported:

In a guidebook titled "Let's Talk About Raci sm," the organization calls Christians to reflect on and rectify their contributions to the social inequities and prejudicial systems that have harmed minorities. Citing its "International Position Statement on Rac ism," the organization writes that it "acknowledges with regret, that Salvationists have sometimes shared in the sins of racism and conformed to economic, organisational and social pressures that perpetuate racism."

An accompanying document created by the Salvation Army's International Social Justice Commission, called the "Study Guide on Rac ism," claims that white people are responsible for "unconscious bias," an idea promulgated by critical-ra ce-theory advocate Ibr am X. Ke ndi. Ke ndi argues that white people's legacy of rac ism is irredeemable, and that the only remedy is reverse discri mination as a matter of retributive justice to level the societal playing field.

CONTINUED: In the "Let's Talk About Rac ism" document, the Salvation Army implores whi te donors to "lament, repent and apologize for biases or rac .ist ideologies held and actions committed," and urges them to adopt "a posture of ... anti-rac ism," another moniker made famous by Kendi.

"In the absence of making anti-rac ist choices, we (un) consciously uphold aspects of White supr emacy, White-dominant culture, and unequal institutions and society," the document states.

Meanwhile, the "Study Guide on Rac ism" states that white people are guilty "unconscious bias" and "unwittingly perpetuate rac ial division," and declares that, "We must stop denying the existence of individual and systemic/institutional rac ism. They exist, and are still at work to keep White Americans in power."

TheBlaze further reported:

In the guide, the Salvation Army makes use of a litany of wo ke terms to articulate their message, including "anti-rac ist," "colonizer," "domestic terrorism," "fasc ism," "institutional rac ism," "microaggressions," "systemic rac ism," and "white ness."

As TheBlaze noted, the wo ke messaging forced some Christians to stop donating to the organization.

What did the Salvation Army say?

The Salvation Army released a statement flatly denying accusations the Christian organization is now peddling ideals of critical ra ce theory and other wo ke messaging.

"[S]ome 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 rac ist society, and that we have abandoned our Christian faith for one ideology or another," the statement explained.

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

Responding to the core of the criticism — the "Let's Talk About Rac ism" study guide — the Salvation Army claimed it was issued to members as a "voluntary resource."

But despite claiming critics of the study guide "have chosen to ignore" attempts by the Salvation Army to provide "accurate information" about the guide, the statement said the Salvation Army has "now withdrawn the guide for appropriate review."

The statement, however, did not specify which specific parts of the study guide require clarification, nor did the statement address the "Study Guide on Rac ism."

Just the fact that they have an International Social Justice Commission is all I need to know.