I have several adopted black teenagers at the High School I work at. I consider them to be my kids. They bring me joy, laughter and intense heart ache on a daily basis. But it is worth it all when one of them sees me in public and comes running up in front of their whole family to give me a hug. Then I get introduced to everybody with the words, This is the sub teacher I told you about________________
They are bound by liberalism but protest those who would free them. I can’t imagine living on that plantation. They know something is not right and they lash out, but at the wrong target________________
That is my point exactly. It is easy to make an observation from the outside and we all do it. But, to really know where they’re coming from, we need to know them. I hope that y’all watched the North Point service I posted. Andy said that when you aren’t close to a situation,my oh don’t really understand it. For example, when a friend talks to you about their marriage, it is easy to give advice. You just need to______ and that will fix it. But, we don’t know the situation because we are too far away from it. Another example is that we will say just go over there and bomb the enemy. It sounds real easy unless you are there and see all the dead bodies of the babies you just killed. We are too far away from the black man’s situation to fully understand it. We say stuff like stop protesting and get a job. I have seen this on social media.
Growing up there were only a handful of black people in my community. The county I grew up in is probably something like 98% white, then the other 2% is largely Hispanic with very few black and Asian people. I had a black friend in high school – Jeremy Beard – but he was also the ONLY black kid in my graduating class of 400-sh students. When I moved to Oregon it was pretty much the same thing. In fact, at one point 5 of the 200-sh people attending our church were black and we joked (with them) that we had the largest percentage of black people in any church in town! Our Youth Pastor was black, and he and I became like brothers.
Seeing that I am biracial, I have many black friends. And I can honestly say among those that I talk to in everyday life, the whole blacklivesmatter movement is not a representation of what we/they believe.
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I have several adopted black teenagers at the High School I work at. I consider them to be my kids. They bring me joy, laughter and intense heart ache on a daily basis. But it is worth it all when one of them sees me in public and comes running up in front of their whole family to give me a hug. Then I get introduced to everybody with the words, This is the sub teacher I told you about________________
They are bound by liberalism but protest those who would free them. I can’t imagine living on that plantation. They know something is not right and they lash out, but at the wrong target________________
That is my point exactly. It is easy to make an observation from the outside and we all do it. But, to really know where they’re coming from, we need to know them. I hope that y’all watched the North Point service I posted. Andy said that when you aren’t close to a situation,my oh don’t really understand it. For example, when a friend talks to you about their marriage, it is easy to give advice. You just need to______ and that will fix it. But, we don’t know the situation because we are too far away from it. Another example is that we will say just go over there and bomb the enemy. It sounds real easy unless you are there and see all the dead bodies of the babies you just killed. We are too far away from the black man’s situation to fully understand it. We say stuff like stop protesting and get a job. I have seen this on social media.
Do we have to truly understand them to point out that their blaming the white man for all their ills is a load of garbage________________
Growing up there were only a handful of black people in my community. The county I grew up in is probably something like 98% white, then the other 2% is largely Hispanic with very few black and Asian people. I had a black friend in high school – Jeremy Beard – but he was also the ONLY black kid in my graduating class of 400-sh students. When I moved to Oregon it was pretty much the same thing. In fact, at one point 5 of the 200-sh people attending our church were black and we joked (with them) that we had the largest percentage of black people in any church in town! Our Youth Pastor was black, and he and I became like brothers.
I know a Jeremy Beard here in Florida. I wonder if he is the same one________________
Seeing that I am biracial, I have many black friends. And I can honestly say among those that I talk to in everyday life, the whole blacklivesmatter movement is not a representation of what we/they believe.
Just by splitting your friends into black and white – you are racist.So I don’t have any categorized that way________________
Good post________________
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