Jon Ham on Black churches and race relations:
“In 1970 I frequently attended a black church in Augusta, Ga., at the invitation of a college friend. Those were the days when whites attending a black church were welcomed with the kind of cross-racial generosity envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King. When I attended services I was introduced and accepted sincerely. The sermons were about getting along, reaching out, living together.
“I’ve always felt the high-water mark of race relations in this country was round 1978 or 1979, before victimology kicked in and some black leaders decided that getting along was not as profitable as making whitey pay. It’s been downhill ever since. It never occurred to me until the Jeremiah Wright controversy that a major part of the problem might be black churches. I wonder what’s being said these days from that pulpit in Augusta, Ga.”
He also has some interesting updates on the Obama / Rev. White situation. If you don’t have the JLF “Right Angles” blog bookmarked yet, I highly recommend it.
