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The love of God is not confined to boundaries of any kind, 

but extends to all nations, tribes, cultures, tongues, and 

people.

Jesus did not allow social status or cultural barriers to 

dictate His relationships with people. 

Diversity did not stop Jesus. Jesus 

always included people.

Jesus embraced others with a radical disregard for their

 race, tribe, creed, color, class, religion, language, age, 

culture, disability, political beliefs, educational

 background, or socioeconomic differences, experiences, 

or realities. 

"Jesus ransomed people for God from every tribe and 

language and people and nation."

Revelations 5:9

Every tribe, nation, and tongue emphasizes the concept of 

wholeness, entirety, or all-encompassing.

We are all the work of God's hand.

-- Isaiah 64:8. 

Considering the times and issues we are faced with in this

 fallen world, we would limit ourselves and be a disservice

 to the Kingdom of God if we did not share or chose to

 share only from one culture, laced with isms and ego.

Let us rise above narrow and habitual ways of thinking 

about other beings and free ourselves from identification 

with the temporary state of our physical forms... as we 

remember our true nature.

Spirit makes us relevant to anyone, anywhere, anytime. 

The Scriptures affirm the fundamental equality of all 

people before God. God's Word is very clear in telling us

 that no one is insignificant. Every single person is 

important, vital, and valuable to God. 

Generalizations and stereotypes of African Americans 

and their culture has and is evolving within American 

society. African-Americans are still being depicted with 

negative stereotypes in news reports, films and TV shows. 

These stereotypes are broad and of long-standing.

Racism is a sin against God.

Racism denigrates the beauty and majesty of God's 

diverse creation. As God gives grace in our cultural, 

contextualized expressions, so should we. 

When hatred, violence and prejudice are put forward and 

exhibited towards others, based on the color of one's skin, 

it becomes racism.

In 2020, there are inherent inequities in American society, 

including inequalities in housing, education, healthcare 

and the issues of mass incarceration and overrepresentation

 of African Americans in the prison system. 

There are many deeply rooted and unaddressed 

inequalities within American institutions, which the

 Coronavirus pandemic further exposed.

There have been many historical injustices and past moral 

wrongs committed that are still grossly impacting the well 

being of many African Americans, in 2020. 

America's ongoing struggle with racism is not so much 

about black and white... it is more about wrong and right. 

We fall short when we take a narrow view of the world

 and give in to stereotyping. The idea of difference,

 worldly isms, and class privilege are interlocking systems 

of oppression. They appear to be natural; however, they 

are, in fact, socially constructed and are used to 

rationalize inequality and all kinds of isms.

God knows our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust. 

Psalm 103:14

God loves us all and is under no illusion about who we 

are, where we have been, what we have done, what we 

have acquired or the color of our skin. God views us as 

His cherished treasure! If we exist, we have value and 

worth and are beautiful to God. 

"There is none righteous, no not one". 

Romans 3:10

.

The concept of inner hatred, social

 repression, racism, unjust prejudice

 and belittlement existed in our distant

 past, and still persists today,

 ridiculously leading many to assert

 delusional beliefs that are strongly 

held to be true by condemning and

 devaluing the humanness in others

 based totally on skin color.

Disgracefully, this kind of racial 

lens is very prevalent in 2020; 

although, skin color categories have 

no basis in biology. 

According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, racism is a 

belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human 

traits and capacities and that racial differences produce 

an inherent superiority of a particular race. 

Race is a societal construct. We're not born with racial 

prejudices; it is not a part of our DNA. We learn racism. 

Home and society teaches us, and the brain, which is like 

a file cabinet, processes the negative words and images 

that are paired... and can form negative views, based on 

its gatherings, which can lead to prejudice and 

stereotyping. 

American educators generally believe that children are 

mostly unaware of racial categories or racism, until they 

are taught to think and act deliberately in ways that 

diminishes and echos race. 

This narrative is not an attempt, by any means, to discredit 

or bash the United States of America... neither is this an 

attempt to whitewash America's bloody past as a 

slave-holding nation. This is a narrative about humanity.

We realize from an acutely conscious and comparative 

perspective that the United States of America is a

 blessed and exceptional nation. God, in His great 

wisdom has put a hedge of protection all around the 

United States, but our nation cannot stay on its present 

course and expect to continue experiencing God's 

blessings. 

In these perilous times, with so many storms on 

the horizon, our nation needs to take ego down to zero and 

be about the business of blessing God in return. 

Lies, divisiveness, deceptions, and evil doings are not of 

God. The truths about the displacement and

 mistreatment of Native Americans and the kidnapping, 

brutal enslavement and exploitation of Africans are truths 

that will set us free regarding founding crimes and the 

continuance of a cruel, racist legacy. 

In talking about the sting of racial inequalities one can 

discover that whites have been privileged and are not 

subjected to unsound, idiotic and insane criminalization, 

based solely on skin color, but these things are realized 

by black people. 

It may behoove white people to get a glimpse of what it is 

like to be black in the context of the harsh realities blacks 

face, i.e., racial profiling, unnecessary harassment, 

dehumanizing and unacceptable verbal abuse, police

 brutality which could lead to unnecessary incarceration, 

which could snowball into the creation of a bad record 

that goes into a database and hangs over one's head, like a 

plague, and labels one as a habitual felony offender. This 

could mean taking one's voting rights and creating

 difficulties for one to obtain employment. In other words,

 this is an insulting, dangerous, damaging and destructive

 form of redesigned slavery! 

Yes, the legacy of slavery lives on in mass incarceration of 

black people. Racial disparities in sentencing and 

incarceration underscores the injustices of the United

 States. 

These are a few of the injustices black people face on a 

regular basis. Yes, it is absolutely necessary to have 

these conversations in an effort to seek justice for all... 

just as it is written! People of color are all too aware that 

our society is racialized...

yes, racism exists. 

Black people live and feel the pain of  

injustice every day.

The history of people of African descent in America, 

is like the dangling of progress and setbacks, of resilience 

and counteractions, of protests and adverse reactions. 

People of African descent have had many allies and 

many opponents. Troublemakers have emerged, who 

would divide Americans on the basis of color and class, 

and visionaries have joined in to steer us to common 

ground.

It is absurd to deflect the blame for the institution of 

slavery in America away from those who know the truth 

and all of the intricacies of the institution of slavery in 

America, past and present; yet some are insistent on 

perpetuating lies, at all cost. 

A definitive discussion regarding slavery and 

racism could feel like an inconvenient truth, for some, but 

piecing the past and present together will help us all come

 to realize the origins of our current national debate about 

race, police brutality, white supremacy, white privilege, 

inequality, the disproportionate incarceration of African 

Americans and the sketchy equal rights agenda.

Without this knowledge, it could be difficult to understand 

all of the societal ills in America, in 2020. History is not 

everything, but it is a starting point.

May those who know... acknowledge and own the truth.

The issues of racism cannot be healed by denying them 

or painting racism with a broad racist brush and the 

saying racism doesn't exist. Racism is real, and it is a 

major problem we can no longer ignore. To ignore the 

pink elephant in the room is much like putting a bandaid 

on a bullet wound.

Racism is devastating to a country and 

its culture. 

There are many Bible critics who take passages out of 

context. They have said, “there is so much racism in the 

Bible. God condones it and He approves of slavery.” 

These are lies brought on by Satan and his children. 

Scripture doesnot promote racism, discrimination, or 

prejudice.

Sadly, there is still a deep racial divide that exists in the 

United States of America. It 's the same old song... second 

verse.

America's ongoing struggle with racism and issues 

concerning unjust policing in black communities is not so 

much about black and white... it is more about wrong and 

right. Historical injustice and past moral wrongs 

committed are still impacting the well-being of many

 black people.

Spirit makes us relevant to anyone, anywhere, anytime.

 The Scriptures affirm the fundamental equality of all 

people before God. God's Word is very clear in telling 

us that no one is insignificant. Every single person is 

important, vital, and valuable to God. 

May we embrace the common thread that weaves the 

complex tapestry of all life together.

God is the Lord of all the world, 

and God is the Creator of all.

The diversity of race, color, language, and sect helps 

us realize the dignity of each individual. This typically 

means being less self-serving, overcoming ego,

 overcoming self-righteous indignation, elevating our 

consciousness and emulating the characteristics of our 

Creator.

When our attitudes and actions are consistent with the 

teachings of Jesus... we can share, act, and come 

together. We believe everything that is needed to build 

a culture of peace already exists within each one of us. 

Racism represents the worst kinds of hatred formed in the 

hearts and minds of some people who show and feel 

discrimination or prejudice against people of other races.

Some believe that race is the primary determinant of 

human traits and racial differences produces and inherent 

superiority of a particular race. Some are hell bent on 

believing deplorable generational myths that have never 

added up and will never add up. They refuse to know and 

grow from the truth. 

Some would rather embrace a warped system of ideas,

ideals and assumptions about other races and sidestep they 

truth just because they really don't want to deal with a 

history of unjustified suffering. 

Although the subject of racism is unsettling and unnerving 

we must do the right thing for the generations to come and 

raise those very painful questions and stop downplaying 

and denying the lies they have been entrenched in. It has 

been said that an unexamined life is not worth living and 

the truth will set us all free.

Regardless of race, color, creed, gender, language, age, 

culture, disability, political beliefs, educational 

background, or socio-economic differences, experiences, 

or realities... all of humanity are equal in the eyes of God.

If we go back far enough, each one of us has a shared 

ancestor with every other person on earth. Scientists 

estimate that the most recent common ancestor of all 

humans lived just a few thousand years ago. Let that sink 

in for a minute. There was someone, a specific man or 

woman, who probably lived in either Egypt or Babylonia

 during the classical period, to whom we can all trace our 

ancestry.

America's ongoing struggle with 

racism is not so much about black and 

white... it is more about wrong and 

right. Historical injustice and past 

moral wrongs committed are still

impacting the well-being of many

 black people.

The most infuriating thing about

injustice is the absence of the

acknowledgment of wrong.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had a bold transformative

vision that would end racism in America. His vision came 

from deep convictions that everyone, regardless of race 

creed or color would realize freedom ringing in and 

through their hearts, minds, nation and world. 

It has been almost 6 decades since 

the 1963 March on Washington; yet, 

many still lack the understanding 

about how to treat one another fairly. 

Equal justice for all is a law and an 

ideal our country has unfortunately

failed to live up to.

Black people are being bombarded 

by continued brutal incidents which  

are painful, appalling, disgusting, and 

heartbreaking reminders that racism, 

hatred, animosity and injustice

 remains a very serious challenge, for 

the land of the free, where on paper, 

there is justice for all. How shameful 

to see America, in

2020,

still deprived of justice and equality for all. These 

antiquated ideals are what our country should be 

embarrassed over.

Research supports the idea that 

many are turning a blind eye and are

refusing to challenge this brutal, 

inhumane status quo which deprives 

black people of justice and equality.

Most would agree, we can no longer

 deny the realities of implicit bias and

systemic racism anywhere in this

world! Systemic racism, as quiet as it 

is kept, affects those who reap the 

benefits and those who suffer the 

atrocities.

So much has to change. Mistreating 

people of a particular race is 

racism. Using tactics like intimidation

and threats when blacks are seeking to 

exercise their rights is devilish.

Most perpetrators consider themselves

 to be racially superior and others...

inferior. 

How can one say that they love God

 and treat people who were made in

 God's image with such disdain?

God makes it clear, in His Word, that 

no man is superior to another. The

Scriptures do not condone, but 

actually condemns this kind of 

behavior.

Humans fall short when we take the view of the narrow 

minded and give in to stereotyping. 

Black people and white people have profoundly different 

views on race and inequality. Many blacks have 

experienced being treated like they were suspicious or not 

smart and have experienced discrimination at a much 

higher rate than whites. Whites are less likely than blacks 

to perceive unequal treatment. 

Many blacks have experienced unfair treatment with 

police, the criminal justice system, when applying for loan 

and/or mortgage, in stores and restaurants. They know all 

too well what it is like to be discriminated against.

Now is the time to rise above all destructive and violent

 rhetoric. The idea of difference, worldly isms, and class

 privilege are interlocking systems of oppression. They 

appear to be natural; however, they are, in fact, socially

 constructed and are used to rationalize inequality and all

 kinds of isms.

Now is the time 

to rise above all destructive and violent rhetoric. 

The idea of difference, worldly isms, and class privilege 

are interlocking systems of oppression. They appear to be 

natural; however, they are, in fact, socially constructed

 and are used to rationalize inequality and all kinds of 

isms.

The problem of racism can be found in the Scriptures. 

God chose to work with the nation of Israel, however 

made it a point to tell them that they were not superior to 

anyone else because of this. 

Leviticus 19:34 states “the stranger who dwells among 

you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall 

love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of 

Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”

"That they may be one"... does not 

imply a group of people who were 

somehow physically morphed together 

creating the existence of a modernistic,

 different, uncontaminated or superior

 physical race. There is no Scripture

 that backs up such a ludicrous claim.

Although we are diverse in many 

ways, we are one in God... with God 

in our being. Those who are joined to 

God become one spirit with God. 

May we unite in the purpose of 

glorifying God's Name.

God created Adam. From Adam, God made Eve. In these 

two people were the genes to produce black, brown, and 

white offspring (and everything else in between).

Within the human race is diversity in skin color. 

God made genetic changes to humanity to better enable 

people to survive in different ecologies, such as the darker

 skin of Africans being better equipped genetically to

 survive the excessive heat in Africa.

 When the different languages came into existence, at the 

tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9), groups that spoke one 

language moved away with others of the same language. 

In doing so, the gene pool for a specific group shrank 

dramatically as the group no longer had the entire human 

population to mix with.

As further inbreeding occurred through the generations, 

the gene pool grew smaller and smaller, to the point that 

people of one language family all had the same or similar 

features. 

Closer inbreeding took place, and in time certain 

features were emphasized in these different groups. 

Paul said, 

“God made from one man every nation of mankind” 

(Acts 17:26).

persons”

(Acts 10:34).

From one person God made all nations 

who live on earth.

The Bible reminds us that there will be "A great 

multitude, which no one could count" in heaven, and that 

these people will be "From every nation and all tribes and 

peoples and tongues."

Racism is a very blatant and pertinent issue in today’s 

society. These issues cannot be healed by denying them or 

saying they don't exist.

Racism is real, and it is a major problem we can no longer 

ignore. To ignore the pink elephant in the room is much 

like putting a bandaid on a bullet wound.

God is the Lord of all the world, 

and God is the Creator of all.

God showed Peter that... 

"No race is better than any 

other!"

Let us grasp that profouond 

reality.

For anyone to think, believe or act in 

any way smug and superior to another, 

based on the color of one's skin or 

birthplace... is not only shallow, but  

they commit the sin of racism. 

Who is mere mortal man to think that 

he is superior and/or the determiner of 

one's significance?

To show favoritism over certain people or act indifferent 

towards the plight of others is to show partiality. Partiality 

is a sin.

If we are to be successful in eradicating racism, we must 

first try to recognize and understand the insidiousness of 

one's own white privilege. Let us examine our 

own biases andwhere they originated. Even while it may 

seem an impossible task, when it comes to racism, anti-

Semitism and other forms of bigotry, it is necessary for 

us to recognize and understand how privilege plays out and

 then, if appropriate and possible, use that privilege to

 collectively empower the oppressed and dismantle 

systemic racism... long shot, but possible.

There are some things black people and white people 

do not share. If you are white and you have not been 

marginalized, racially profiled, ostracized, wrongly 

incarcerated, denigrated, dismissed, had guns drawn on 

you, beaten, choked, screamed at, disparaged, lied on,

humiliated, for no reason pulled over, pulled out of 

your home/car, thrown down to the ground and 

frisked, been called boy or gal in front of your minor 

children and wife/husband just because of the color of 

your skin... it will be hard for you to truly understand

these hard truths about racial injustices many black 

taxpaying citizens experience just trying to live in the 

United States of America.

Let’s face it, prejudices and systemic racism are built into 

our nation's history and they run deeply. There has been a 

long legacy of dehumanizing hatred that we need to 

acknowledge. 

The act of having the conversation and addressing

 structural racism, analyzing it, discussing it, or just

 pointing out that it exists makes some people 

uncomfortable.

 But discomfort pales in comparison to the 

lingering economic disparities, psychological and 

many other structured ills of racial inequities blacks are

faced with, in some form... on a regular basis.

The fact is, police officers react differently to white 

people who are pulled over as opposed to black people 

they pull over. For those who refuse to acknowledge the 

dehumanizing inequalities… just imagine what you would 

feel like if the situations were reversed. 

When people say black lives matter, it does not mean blue 

lives, white lives, red lives, yellow lives and brown lives 

don’t matter. All lives matter is an accurate statement, but 

this is not a matter of devaluing or comparing lives. When 

black people have encounters with biased people within 

the judicial system and police officers, it becomes very 

apparent to black people that they can't or won't see the 

humanity in black lives. Black lives have been grossly 

undervalued and to try to rationalize the horrible injustices 

is just wrong and mean-spirited. 

How would you feel if the police 

patrolled your community the way 

they patrol the black community?

Imagine this as being your experience 

in the United States of America?

How would you feel if every move 

you, your child, your brother, sister, 

mother, or father made had to be made 

with severe consideration for their life

 being threatened or taken by those

 who are to preserve law and order?

Far too many bad police officers 

routinely hurt and maim black people. 

How would you feel if the police and 

the justice system treated you as they 

treat blacks?

YOU WOULD BE OUTRAGED!

Black lives are at risk. Blacks are twice as likely to be 

hurt, arrested or killed by an officer. It is said that there 

are more black Americans in the United States justice 

system than there were slaves in 1850. 

The "Black Lives Matter" slogan is to raise 

awareness of the violence and discrimination blacks 

regularly face in the United States of America. This is a 

fight against injustice.

Black lives matters denounces systemic racism and police 

brutality, that is excessively used against black people. 

Let us be honest, many whites have unearned advantages 

over blacks, and when it is brought to the light... some 

tend to deflect, dismiss, misunderstand and read into it... a 

whole different meaning. That is cruel and selfish. It 

is time that we all look through a more righteous lens 

and stop deflecting the real issues minorities have to face 

when they interact with bad officers.

The big "aha" is that blacks are racially profiled and are 

more vulnerable to less than transparent judicial 

processes. Blacks are disproportionately targeted and 

subjected to biased and corrupt police bullying.

Let us not miss the point, black people are being murdered 

and brutalized by police who in many cases get a slap on 

the wrist. These are real lives that are being taken. These 

are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, sons 

and daughters. These are livesthat have been ripped 

away from their loved ones either through wrongful 

incarceration or tragic acts of violence. 

Contrary to what some may believe... 

Black people are also a part of God's 

amazing creation!

Whether all humans accept it or not... 

black lives really do matter and should 

not be subjected to blatant injustice,

 treated with contempt and/or regarded

 as subhuman, 

that is the point.

It doesn’t take rocket science to sense that the soul of 

America is wounded, and it is in a very unhealthy place.

We are now witnessing the painful wounds of 

COVID-19, systemicracism, natural and man-made 

disasters, injustices, inequalities, divisiveness trickling 

from the top rungs, police brutality, hatred, senseless

 incarcerations, propaganda, endless malicious, cunning, 

cruel, controlling and deceitful lies from people who

 should be honest and trustworthy. These wicked and 

deeply hurtful ills have been and are very damaging 

to the soul of our great country. 

Satan, the antagonist, loves to see others in shambles, 

distracted, uncertain, and at the edge of the cliff. He has 

had a field day performing just about every ugly deed he 

could in order to traumatize our land and perplex our

 souls... thus, leaving America in a very fragile state of 

disorder.

In times of trouble... if our eyes are fixed toward the 

world, we will run in a worldly direction seeking help. 

Trust, comfort and safety does not come through the 

power of the flesh. 

May we, individually and collectively, lift our eyes to the 

hills and remember where our help comes from. Our help 

always comes from God. 

May we allow God's light of compassion, empathy and 

justice to abide. Let us thank God that His promises still 

apply today. 

By the grace of God, we can never fall so far that we 

cannot be revived and restored. If our hearts are blinded 

by racism, God can fix it. When wicked people plot, 

terrorize and try to destroy the lives of other people, based 

solely on the color of one's skin, God can fix it. Where 

there is injustice, immorality, bigotry, and hatred, God can 

fix it. Where there is dishonesty and divisiveness, God can 

fix it and nothing can stop or hinder God's work.

May we trust and find solace in God's Divine Way, Will 

and Timing. There is nothing God cannot do. 

2 Chronicles 7:14 reminds us:

“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble 

themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their 

wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will 

forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

God does not show partiality 

or favoritism

 (Deuteronomy 10:17; Acts 10:34; Romans 

2:11; Ephesians 6:9), 

and neither should we. 

God created us all and God sees each of us 

as precious and valuable. 

May we live God's truth.