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Originally Posted by Praxeas
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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I visited a multicultural church near Chicago a couple months ago, and the pastor spoke on racism in the church. He said it's funny......he's heard people comment on his black church....because they passed by and saw black people exiting.
He's also heard people comment on his white church.....they were passing by and saw white people exiting......
He spoke very candidly about the stereotypes that exist between both worlds. He told the whites that a group of black men standing on a street corner didn't mean they were drug dealers. He told the blacks that they didn't have to wake up in the morning, feeling that it was another day of fighting the white folks that had it in for them.
He spoke about the Civil War and how hundreds of thousands of white men lost their lives for their freedom.
He also spoke about the statistics involving slavery and that about 3,000 black businessmen owned black slaves in the south.
He is a white pastor, and while I wasn't sure how his words would be received, he got amens from both black and white folks.