January 25th, 2012
Things I Don’t Understand:
Things I don’t understand; Rev Jesse Jackson… you make money in keeping racial tensions alive, you cloak divisive rhetoric in calm slippery words, and you invoke the name of Rev Martin Luther King, yet you do nothing to further his dream, which as I understand it was to make all men (and women) equal, that we live in a country that does not see color…so why do you keep crying “race” every time your mug gets on a TV somewhere? Isn’t it possible that sometimes an “issue” is simply a “human issue”? Can a problem exist because we are people in general? I can’t help but wonder every time I hear you speak, would our country be so divided if people like you, of every color, were simply ignored? What if every time you stepped off a plane you were met be a crowd of all colors that said, “No thank you.” How can a person with the title of “Rev.” be so incredibly divisive - yet present it as though your doing the African American community a favor? You do accomplish one thing, for me anyway…I pray that God will soften my heart, that I will truly identify and let go of any biases I may have based on anything other than the behavior I witness. Then I pray that God will give me a forgiving heart, eyes and words of grace, and words of restoration.
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