tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021266862340067394.post-81203032593917374922008-02-28T18:04:00.000-05:002008-02-28T18:04:00.000-05:002008-02-28T18:04:00.000-05:00Well first of all, I find your comments very interesting. If you have all of the perks of the dominant culture inside the church as well as outside the church then your comments would be justified. But if you apart of a culture that continues to be discounted and discriminated against then I would understand. I have seen any white's that are stopped by the police for driving fancy cars, in any neighborhoods.<BR/><BR/>If you apart of a culture that wants to support each other and assist each other then you would understand that plight and the predicament of a culture where many of our people will go to a multi-cultural church in mass numbers led by a white pastor but not too many of people in other churches in mass numbers attend multi-cultural churches pastored by black pastors. In our community we still have alot of issues that we are resolving and one of them is self-hatred that is one of the lingering effects of slavery.<BR/><BR/>Rick Warren shares in his book the purpose driven church that there is nothing wrong with going after a specific group of people so why is there something wrong with trying to lift up a entire race of people by supporting themselves when other cultures do it but they just don't have the lingering effects of slavery and continued racism. For us to even have a conversation about a black person being president in 08 helps us that we still live in the yet to be United States of AmericaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com