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“To my white brothers and sisters in the Lord, please hear me on this.
Contrary to the narrative that is being propagated by some white evangelical social justicians in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minnesota, I, for one, do not carry around with me the "burden of hundreds of years of slavery in America" nor do I blame you or any of your ancestors for it. In fact, many of my own ancestors were slave owners and slave traders who, were it not for them, slavery, as an institution in America, would not have been as pervasive as it was.
The existence of slavery, not only in America but in the world, is owing to one thing—the innate sinfulness of mankind (see Romans 3:23). But all that is secondary to the larger point I want to make—and if this doesn't apply to you, please feel free to ignore and disregard my comments—but I am asking you, in the spirit of Ephesians 4:15 (speaking the truth in love), to please stop taking opportunities like the death of George Floyd to virtue signal to black people as if we are a tribe. Needless to say, we are not. Like you, every black person is uniquely created in the image of God (see Genesis 1:27; 5:1).
That black people happen to have shared a common shade of melanin with George Floyd, doesn't mean we all are viewing the circumstances of his death in such a way as to process what happened to him through the lens of slavery. Trust me, it is not helpful when white people, however well-intended, lump all black people together monolithically as collective mourners over a particular incident solely on the basis that the color of our skin is the same as the victim.
What we all should grieve is that an image-bearer of God was murdered, not that a black image-bearer of God was murdered. That's not grieving, my brothers and sisters, that's virtue signaling, and I can see right through it.”
Darrell B. Harrison
Contrary to the narrative that is being propagated by some white evangelical social justicians in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minnesota, I, for one, do not carry around with me the "burden of hundreds of years of slavery in America" nor do I blame you or any of your ancestors for it. In fact, many of my own ancestors were slave owners and slave traders who, were it not for them, slavery, as an institution in America, would not have been as pervasive as it was.
The existence of slavery, not only in America but in the world, is owing to one thing—the innate sinfulness of mankind (see Romans 3:23). But all that is secondary to the larger point I want to make—and if this doesn't apply to you, please feel free to ignore and disregard my comments—but I am asking you, in the spirit of Ephesians 4:15 (speaking the truth in love), to please stop taking opportunities like the death of George Floyd to virtue signal to black people as if we are a tribe. Needless to say, we are not. Like you, every black person is uniquely created in the image of God (see Genesis 1:27; 5:1).
That black people happen to have shared a common shade of melanin with George Floyd, doesn't mean we all are viewing the circumstances of his death in such a way as to process what happened to him through the lens of slavery. Trust me, it is not helpful when white people, however well-intended, lump all black people together monolithically as collective mourners over a particular incident solely on the basis that the color of our skin is the same as the victim.
What we all should grieve is that an image-bearer of God was murdered, not that a black image-bearer of God was murdered. That's not grieving, my brothers and sisters, that's virtue signaling, and I can see right through it.”
Darrell B. Harrison
