tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31951197.post8802539975208143853..comments2023-05-05T04:28:55.009-04:00Comments on November In My Soul: Down At The RiverThe Bosom Serpenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02714508633578237489noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31951197.post-55630702474325347452009-09-26T10:30:41.825-04:002009-09-26T10:30:41.825-04:00Wow. I would feel shocked to hear this. Very Sad....Wow. I would feel shocked to hear this. Very Sad. <br /><br />Hard to know how to handle such a situation. <br /><br />Lord have mercy on us all.elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00962587884124992942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31951197.post-44230310859899114522009-09-26T07:23:37.323-04:002009-09-26T07:23:37.323-04:00Dare I comment on this? Personally, as a Southern ...Dare I comment on this? Personally, as a Southern caucasion, I believe racism is far less than it was 30 years ago. Both sides of the "race card" need to drop it. However, human nature does not allow this blight on society to completely go away. I pray that over the next couple of generations, we, as a society, can overcome this horrible mentality.<br /><br />I once rented property from a gentleman who truly despised black people. I had a conversation with him concerning what scripture teaches...deep rooted racism continued even after the scriptures should have caused him to reconsider his position.<br /><br />I filled a preaching appointment once in which the senior deacon approached me apologizing for the location of the church (not an all white neighborhood). He said this use to be a fine neighborhood, but not anymore. That went all over me. I had something entirely different prepared to deliver as my sermon...the Lord changed my mind...My sermons developed around how the church should resemble the area in which it resides. <br /><br />After services, a sister of that church came to me and said, "I know what you preached was right, but I didn't like it."<br /><br />People get things engraved in them. It is at the very core of their lives. It take sincere self examination and awareness to overcome these prejudices in our lives. It takes Christ! <br /><br />I have come to realize, most church goers do not realize the fact that Moses' second wife was an Ethiopian, a very dark skinned race.<br /><br />I don't want people to forget their heritage, shoot, I like mine (for the most part), my heritage is about family, hard times, laughter and so on. Our heritage should be important and mine includes a womanizing grandfather and another a wife beater. Those two men are a part of my heritage, but I choose not to run around with different women, nor do I beat my wife. I hope I have learned something from my heritage.<br /><br />We should learn from the good and the bad of our heritage...keep that which is good and throw out that which is bad.<br /><br />ChrisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31951197.post-56318658460334445512009-09-26T00:59:10.617-04:002009-09-26T00:59:10.617-04:00When I was maybe 3 years old (in the 50's) my ...When I was maybe 3 years old (in the 50's) my parents took me to visit my grandparents in Arkansas. They put me on my grandmother's lap in the front seat of the car as we drove around Little Rock and they taught me to yell "HEY JIGABOO!" out the window at the Blacks. Everyone in the car apparently got a hoot out of it. The South has not really gotten much better except perhaps in some isolated pockets of the bigger metropolitan areas. I too was racially profiled for years being half Chinese...then finally Bruce Lee and Cheech and Chong liberated me from being called Charlie Chan. I guess my question is, what good would a protest do? It would only make me feel like I stood up, but to what? An immovable object. And it just seems like a waste of time and energy.Steve Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04319784922747041297noreply@blogger.com