This
morning as I was preparing breakfast, I was thinking about *someone* calling
for an honest conversation on race.
And I reflected that very few really want that, because perhaps the
biggest race problem in America today* is Black racism, and very few of any
skin color really want to address that unpleasant subject. And that even though Black racism has
infected even the church every bit as much as White racism did 50 years and
more ago. Many Black churches are
more Black than Christian and at least a few prominent ones are downright
hateful about it. See Obama’s old
church, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
And I
myself thought I best not address that topic with full honesty, that it would
be taken that I am the RAAAACISSST. Whether that is prudence or cowardice on my
part, I’ll let you be the judge. And I wished more Blacks would have the perception
and courage to face Black racism head on.
For they could surely do it more effectively than any cracker like
myself.
But,
lo, this same morning, I stumbled across this courageous column by the Rev. Dr.
Ken Hutcherson, Senior Pastor of Antioch Bible Church near Seattle. Now he does not call out Black racism
by name. But in addressing the
Zimmerman-Martin controversy, he does call it out in a fashion, and far more
winsomely than I can:
Blackness is the apex of victimhood and our blackness is above
truth, above our Christianity, above our God, above our Holy Spirit, so that
means if our blackness is above the Holy Spirit, then it is above Truth. This
is so important for everyone to know this so they can understand why this Trayvon
and Zimmerman case is where it is today and why blacks refuse to believe what
really happened.
Thus
he points out, again more gently than I, that Black racism in the church is prominent
and is really a form of idolatry.
He
goes on to urge, “Black people will never be the great people that
we truly are until we put Jesus above our blackness.” (And similar exhortations could be made to other many highly
ethnic churches.)
I
cannot put it any better than that.
And really it takes a Black man of courage to say that well. Kudos to Dr. Hutcherson for being such
a man. May more men like him rise
up, for this whole country is in desperate need of such real honesty.
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*PLEASE
NOTE: There is no question that
White racism was a far bigger problem than any Black racism 50 years ago and
beyond. And, surely that the
source of much Black racism today.
But it is past time for people of all colors to face up to what are our
cultural problems today.
Hat
tip to The Blaze.
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