It’s taken me a full month to get my mind around the back lash over this video. How could 1 minute of media content undo what “seems” to be 100 years of progress?
“We’ve moved beyond Jim Crow.”
“We’ve moved beyond purposeful segregation.”
“We’ve moved beyond alienation because of race, ‘class,’ and culture.”
These are the well meaning thoughts I have from time to time, particularly when I see the headway churches like Renovation, Transformation, Fellowship Memphis, Mosaic and a hand full of others have made in their cities. Then I’m snapped back to reality when a national event like the racist explosion of Boston hockey fans happens—in 2012! Or the hostile, backward reaction of thousands of people to a Coke commercial in which people sing “America the Beautiful” in languages that are spoken in this country every single day. My favorite comment was this one:“When did coke get bought out by terrorists?..” There was also a call to“#SpeakAmerican.” There are several other comments, full of vulgarity, that you can read here.
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Leonce Crump
Leonce, in his own words... "Jesus snatched me up one month before my 16th birthday. It’s a crazy God story, and one I love to tell. I knew early on in my journey that I was called to pastor but I had no desire to do it, so instead I ran like hell. After 20 months in college of pure insanity and rebellion against God I stopped running, and started living. I began to accept my role in God’s story. Since then I have competed to make the world team in wrestling, played football for the New Orleans Saints, coached at a collegiate level, and sold copy machines—every event pointing me toward Atlanta..." Read more about Leonce Crump
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