I think blind spots happen on both sides though.
I didn't say that both sides didn't have blind spots.
You claim we all have white privilege and cannot understand what it is like to be harassed by the police for how we look. I responded and proved you wrong and you just quit responding. I posted a great article that calls out the church on it's lack of action and the first real response is basically, "it's y'alls fault."
Now if you go back and read what I REALLY said, I said
That's why so many white people who feel as he does
Thus there was no need for me to respond as I didn't say ALL.
You know I agree that many "Christians" actions are deplorable and call into question their "Christianity." The trouble is someone decided that how white people feel doesn't matter. It does. Perhaps we don't get harassed by the police, even when committing a crime, the way a black male does. I still can't go to a black neighborhood without my life being threatened. I am still automatically labelled a racist with no qualifier other than I am white, and heaven forbid I mention I am from the south.
And black people get the same thing when they walk into white neighborhoods, into department stores, into gas stations, etc. And from what I see and hear from black people,it's no so much that what white people think doesn't matter. It's more of what white people think doesn't have to matter more than what black people think as has generally been the case.
They are attempting to take back their lives after slavery and decades of still being told how they could think, where they could go, how they could do things , etc.
I raised strongly to believe a persons skin color doesn't matter.
You were raised incorrectly because in the United States of America, it certainly does matter and don't ever forget that. So many of us like to say that we don't see skin color. We need to see skin color because it's there. And forthright or undercover, it influences our thought processes when we don't know someone.
I was almost killed in 6th grade, by an adult, for having a black girlfriend. But I have also spent my life being called a racist and having my life and property threatened just because I am white. A person is only going to put themselves out there and get bit so many times before they quit putting themselves out there.
And many black people would take you underneath their wing and say "come join the party" because they have experienced something very similar time and time again. But their parents and grandparents would be speaking in the past tense about the person involved because they were burned alive or lynched or dragged behind a truck or shot dead for doing what you did.
I have supported most of what you have posted here concerning race, yet you still broad brushed me in with everyone else with your "white people" statements.
Again, no I did not. I f you look back at what I DID say, I specifically said "so many" and not ALL.
It gets to the point I will just let you get beat down because I get sick of being insulted no matter what I do...
Now you know by now that there isn't a soul in this world who can beat me down with anything that the Holy Spirit in me can't stand firmly against.
I can say what I say because I'm speaking to a wickedness that many refuse to even acknowledge.
You've experienced a different perspective than the average white person. So have I. But until those in the Body of Christ realize that a lot of white people do operate from a position of white privilege that will not let them even consider that the perspective of the non-majority might have merit, then things will continue to spiral down.
