Garvey's Ghost: Black Talk

Ironic Ain't It?

So perusing black electorate I stumbled across this article
On Blacks (largely clergy) and Homosexual marriage. I won't get into my position on it other than to say that a secular government with a stated separation between Church and State will have a hard time legislating a largely religious issue. And If Homosexual marriages are approved then Polygamists ought to get their "rights' soon after.

Anyway... what was amusing about the article was the following:
quote:
    "Black pastors understand what's at stake here, and they're not going to put their color before Christ," said Mrs. Parker, whose group, Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education, is helping organize the San Francisco rallies. "You want to wage war with the black evangelical church? You got it."

They seem to not put much before their Christ. Given that the Historical Jesus was described as having wholy hair and feet the color of burnt brass, They still have huge stringy haired, blue (sometimes brown) eyed, pale skinned Jesus' on their programs and the like. They are the first to tell you how the color of the Christ doesn't matter, yet fail to understand the very real connection between the white "Christ" and "racism."

I just got a chuckle out of that and wanted to share.