Thread: Why aren't there more African Americans in the UPC or the leadership of the UPC???
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Old 10-10-2007, 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted by DividedThigh View Post
well i obviously cant speak for the organization, but after being around for over 37 years, two observations, most of the upc churches dont have a lot of americans of african descent in them, and also most of the people i know who are americans of african descent go to black pentecostal churches by choice, this is my experience , especially in the south, dt
It's not just that the UPC is a "very racist organization"...where I live in southern Cal most black people go to black churches..period. I remember witnessing to a black woman once and she said she drove past our church and just didn't know if her kind was welcome. So black people have a perception already that they go to black churches and whites go to white churches. Our church is racially mixed and always has been. It was a black person that helped bring me into the UPC
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