Thank you for writing this. I attended for years a “multicultural” non-denominational church in the South where white people did these exact things. I never knew it as a disengaged weekly attendee, but once I started working in the church office with programs as the only minority serving poor people (primarily people of color)……I started to see and hear things that I just couldn’t believe. The straw that broke the camels back was the inauguration of the first African-American POTUS. The long-time white pastor from Idaho all but called him a nigger devil. He used lots of terms like dark, black times, anti-Christ. All of which were codes Southern Black folks, regardless of education, know well.

I left that church that Sunday in the middle of the sermon and never looked back. I haven’t bothered to join another one since. That’s was in 2007. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from attending a variety of places of worship is that they all in some form or fashion are perfect breeding grounds to facilitate and condone racism. Just look at the diversity of the leadership compared to the diversity of flock. It tells the full story.

Good for you for breaking the cycle of racism. This was a great story, I loved it. It dredged up a very painful point in my life dealing with people and religion. The wounds still hurt apparently.