You just used a dishonest stereotyping method yourself. You are racist. My aunt, uncle and children are African-American and white. You do it for purposes of a presumption of black. It is your stereotyping. In fact, the northern tier of countries are some Europeans Whites and mostly Arabs. They are Africans until they come here. Then they become African hyphen American.
So someone in your family is an inter-racial marriage- what does that have to do with the price of chicken in Afghanistan?
Let me preface this by saying that I have tried to be very careful at not shooting at MOW. From every thing I know about him he appears to be a great guy and pastor (I said as much earlier in the thread).
That being said, how do you interpret "I am personally aware of this type of behavior among some black preachers"?
Person A: Yao Ming steals from little old ladies.
Person B: I am personally aware of this type of behavior among some Chinese people.
What is Person C supposed to derive from this?
Once again, I am not trying to hang MOW. I'm wondering what you deduce from the statement. I've stated earlier in this thread the reason that I even get involved in these sorts of threads.
For the record, this is a sincere question and not a facetious post. If there is something that I need to learn here, I'm all ears as well.
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The "down low" issue is simply a reflection that the black community, as a whole, is far less accepting of outright homosexuality than some others. This results in some people who have those "tendencies" not coming out like some others. This is not something that was started because of problems in churches in particular.
And that is exactly my point. They aren't scared to address it in their churches - - wish the white community could be more open about addressing the problem instead of ignoring it or allowing - - oh, never mind I've already made too many mad.
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