Comments on: Thoughts on racial profiling; Saudi gang rape; and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

By: tony sheng

tony sheng — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:51:52 +0000

On one hand, we all could be the subject of the ‘profiling’ by someone else, since we all have some pretty bad tendencies when it comes to whether we obey the speed limit, curse when we are cut off, or think bad thoughts about someone without saying them aloud. But that’s the Gospel, right – even in light of that, God reaches towards us and moves us towards acting right, and acting right for others. The countercultural Christ follower befriends, reaches out and relates – terrorist or not. Maybe that’s the gist – that the global war on terror is won by those quiet, individuals doing life together that offer light to those that are so disaffected.

By: Dirtyhands4Him

Dirtyhands4Him — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:43:32 +0000

I dealt with the immigration issue recently on my blog. Scroll down to near the bottom of my main page, to Oct 24, 2007 to a post entitled, “Immigration Issues”. I’ll bookmark this site and be back. Thanks for being God’s witnesses in this type of neighborhood.

By: deanna

deanna — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:14:01 +0000

What a loaded question… I’m scared to even touch this one!! In thinking about this, thoughts went to my dad. I grew up believing that my father was an embittered, prejudiced inner-city middle school teacher who disliked and distrusted people of different skin colors and languages. On a trip down south, we were on empty and he pulled off the road to fill the car up with gas. As he got out of the car, another car with an African American family in it pulledup. The owner of the station yelled to them to get lost, they “don’t serve them folks around here.” My father quickly put down the nozzle, hopped back in the car and drove off mumbling that he wasn’t going to buy gas at a station that treated people that way.

I’m not sure how much that experience changed him, but it sure changed me. I knew then that I didn’t want to sit back and allow broad beliefs about certain people groups to blind me to injustice. I hope that people in the US will speak out against the injustices they see elsewhere (not just in the Middle East) and that it might change the backward thinking in our own hearts first.

Jesus calls us to love our neighbors – and I think that’s the only way to bring about change. We love them by entering into relationships with them, as uncomfortable as it might be. If we want to influence the world at all, we have to start with Christ.

does that even answer one tiny part of your question??