Ellen Brown
Well-Known Member
I was raised in a backwared, hickish, racist family in the early 50s. I heard things about Chinks, Redskins, Wet Backs and Blacks that now days humiliate me. They were all for keeping the Japanese pinned up. Somehow, when Wernher Von Braun started making Rockets, the Germans escaped all that.
I knew it was wrong and when I left home, I vowed to do better, much better.
Seven decades after all that, I'm still working on that lofty goal. Today I stood on a balcony looking down at a group of African Americans picnicking, and faced the shame that I have to keep working on it. I'm very ashamed. I've been to Kenya as a Missionary and they were sweet, loving and kind. I never had any issue with blacks while I was an observant Muslim for 9 years. They were sweet, loving, protective of me.
Romans 7:24-25 King James Version (KJV)
24 O wretched man (woman) that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
I don't struggle with the other races.
Despite the fact that I am half Cherokee, sometimes Native Americans don't like me.
How is it possible to please God in this state?
I knew it was wrong and when I left home, I vowed to do better, much better.
Seven decades after all that, I'm still working on that lofty goal. Today I stood on a balcony looking down at a group of African Americans picnicking, and faced the shame that I have to keep working on it. I'm very ashamed. I've been to Kenya as a Missionary and they were sweet, loving and kind. I never had any issue with blacks while I was an observant Muslim for 9 years. They were sweet, loving, protective of me.
Romans 7:24-25 King James Version (KJV)
24 O wretched man (woman) that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
I don't struggle with the other races.
Despite the fact that I am half Cherokee, sometimes Native Americans don't like me.
How is it possible to please God in this state?