From time to time I direct our attention to various aspects of social and racial injustice, something I don’t really experience since I’m not a minority. Last week, Rodney Stevens, a black writer and life coach born and raised in South Carolina, now living in Columbia, SC, wrote an essay published in the Wall Street Journal. I thought it was instructive, offering hope and perspective. Here is some of what he wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many of the authors, commentators\u00a0and journalists\u00a0who spend all their energy\u00a0thinking\u00a0and talking\u00a0about race today\u00a0fail to acknowledge\u00a0how much has improved\u00a0with regard\u00a0to race in this country. There are countless\u00a0successful\u00a0black Americans\u00a0today\u2014doctors\u00a0and lawyers, entrepreneurs\u00a0and academics, journalists\u00a0and artists, compassionate\u00a0politicians\u00a0and famous\u00a0Hollywood\u00a0actors. Their numbers\u00a0will keep growing\u00a0as long as we remember\u00a0six things:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I hope that you will take what you need from Rodney’s perspective, but I hope we will all practice the sixth recommendation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. (Colossians 4.6, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3.28, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From time to time I direct our attention to various aspects of social and racial injustice, something I don’t really experience since I’m not a minority. Last week, Rodney Stevens, a black writer and life coach born and raised in South Carolina, now living in Columbia, SC, wrote an essay published in the Wall Street … Continue reading Perspective on Racism<\/span>