Are you a coward?
The new Attorney General Eric Holder (an African American) of the United States recently said the following:
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially, a nation of cowards.”
John Gibson, a Fox News radio show host had the following to say,
The problem with this frank discussion on race, which I try to do on my radio show all the time, is for certain people, those people who are not African American, for them to bring up this discussion, they are face with the possibility of being called racist right to their face.
Perhaps if the Attorney General of the United States would say to his fellow African Americans, ‘Look, we want to have this frank discussion on race, but the only way it’s gonna happen is if we lay down the race card.’
If every white person who wants to have this discussion on race, who wants to live in a post-racial America has to be faced with being called a racist, to engage in this conversation, it’s just not gonna happen.
I take offense to the Attorney General calling us cowards. I felt that was inappropriate for someone in his position. I agree with Gibson that a lot of people are ready to have frank discussions but can because so many black people cannot get past assuming someone is racist just because they have a different opinion on matters of importance to black culture. As long as these accusations continue we will wrestle with race issues for some time to come and signs like the one at the beginning of this post will continue to show up.
Robert
I love theology and the challenge of making deep teachings non-boring. Let's face it, most of the time we hear theological teaching, it really is boring. Does it really have to be that way? Nope.
