I\u2019ve been reading a book about racial reconciliation and injustice. In this book the main character Clarence, a black man, tells a tale from the fifties when he was nine and his family accidentally walked into the \u201cwrong\u201d restaurant. His parents had either missed the \u201cwhites only\u201d and \u201cno colored\u201d signs or in that particular small town it was just supposed to be understood. . . Either way, Clarence\u2019s family was met with icy stares from customers and employees. However, all the stares weren\u2019t icy, some were pained and troubled, even apologetic. As if they thought of themselves as good people and as good people they were sorry for what was about to happen.<\/p>\n
As they entered the restaurant a waitress wearing a name tag that said \u201cGlenda\u201d walked up to them and said, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, this isn\u2019t\u2026I mean, there\u2019s a restaurant with a colored window down the way. It\u2019s called Dottie\u2019s. On your left just before you leave town.\u201d Glenda hadn\u2019t said, \u201cNo coloreds here,\u201d or \u201cWhites only here.\u201d What she did say meant the same, of course, but she would sleep better having said it that way. Clarence said he remembers it seemed as if Glenda choked a bit, to hesitate. Showing her guilty conscious. Glenda would never have defended burning crosses, lynching black men, riding horses with bed sheets flying in the wind. Glenda wasn\u2019t the one who invented the status quo. . . She was simply one who maintained it. She may have been a good woman when it came to working hard and teaching her children to do right, but she was a coward or ignorant or both when it came to resisting a degrading system so long in place it was assumed to be right.<\/p>\n
Clarence also tells the story of a golf course owner named Mr. Spelling where Clarence and his brother tried to get jobs as caddies but were turned down because, well, because of why they were always turned down. Mr. Spelling had said, \u201cNow, I\u2019m no racist, those are just the rules.\u201d Mr. Spelling had been very apologetic, I guess to make himself feel better and not as guilty. Again, Mr. Spelling was not a man that invented the status quo, but he still chose to enforce it.<\/p>\n
Glenda and Mr. Spelling were what Clarence\u2019s pastor had called, \u201clittle racists.\u201d Big racists were the KKK types, the cross burners, the ones that would spit on and kick those not like themselves, but his pastor had always said that the \u201cbig racists\u201d weren\u2019t the dangerous ones. He said, \u201cBad as they are, the devil only has so many big racists, but it is the little racists, the nice people, the church goers, school teachers, police officers, businessmen, mayors, milkmen, and mail carriers. They make the community what it is. They make the wheels turn. The wheels of commerce, the wheels of benevolence. . . The wheels of oppression and injustice. They are the little racists.\u201d<\/p>\n
The minister had once gave a sermon on the Holocaust. He said that it wasn\u2019t Hitler and the Nazi insiders who slaughtered the Jews. Dozens of the \u201cbig racists,\u201d even hundreds or thousands of them, couldn\u2019t pull off the murders of all those millions. The key was \u201cnormal\u201d people. Those who thought of themselves as decent people. Those who wouldn\u2019t kick a Jew to death, but would look the other way when someone else did. It was the normal people who made the Holocaust happen. . . The \u201cgood people\u201d who tolerated unspeakable evil. The tragedy wasn\u2019t so much the brutality of bad people as the silence of good people.<\/p>\n
As I type this, our nation and world is facing yet another unspeakable evil. Right now the second largest abortion facility in the world, next to China, is being built in Houston, Texas. A six-story, 78,000 sq. ft., Planned Parenthood abortion \u201cSuper Center\u201d (of which the third floor is dedicated to performing late-term abortions). While at the same time our lawmakers are fighting to pass a bill that forces us all to fund abortions under the guise of health care. I used to be in shock when I would read in the Bible of times when civilizations would openly sacrifice their children as an acceptable part of the culture. Now those ancient death temples are once again becoming a reality in our very own day and age!<\/p>\n
In every generation and with every case of injustice God has raised up heroes to combat that injustice. When Pharaoh had enslaved the Hebrews God sent Moses to deliver His people, during the days of the slave trade God empowered William Wilberforce to confront the English establishment, during the civil rights movement God raised up Martin Luther King Jr. to be a voice of justice and equality, when sin had ravaged mankind. . . . God sent Jesus.<\/p>\n
Now it\u2019s our turn. In our generation I believe we face a greater darkness than any that has come before in the form of abortion, sex trafficking, and hate motivated prejudice religions. A holocaust on steroids (with approximately 115,000 abortions happening EVERY DAY worldwide, and 42 million abortions happening EVERY YEAR) But we have been the ones chosen \u201cfor such a time as this.\u201d We can either be the \u201cGlenda\u2019s\u201d and \u201cMr. Spellings\u201d that turn our heads from unspeakable evil for things as trivial as \u201caffordable health care\u201d (which is trivial when compared to murdering millions of innocent lives) or we can raise a holy revolt.<\/p>\n
You may be asking, \u201cBut how can I make a difference? What am I supposed to do?\u201d And the answer is whatever it takes. Right now many of these things don\u2019t directly affect us so it is easy to ignore and go on with our lives pretending everything is ok. But I believe that very soon the face of our nation is going to change drastically, directly affecting our lives in a very large way. But if we wait till then to act it will be too late. DON\u2019T BE LULLED TO SLEEP. War has been waged on God\u2019s will, innocent lives have been targeted! Where are the heroes of this generation? Where are the ones that will stand against the deepest darkness of our time to reap the greatest harvest in history?<\/p>\n
Ask the Lord what your place in this battle is. I don\u2019t want to be so presumptuous as to assume to know that for you. His ways are much higher than mine. But I do know that if you will seek Him than He will show you the battle plan for your own personal life. And when He shows you, obey – no matter how large the plan, how uncomfortable it makes you, or how great the sacrifice. Every hero that changed the course of history paid a great price to do so. “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” (read John 15:9-17 to read how God instructs us to do the same) It is important that we all take our post in this critical hour in history.<\/p>\n
Either you are a \u201clittle racist\u201d empowering evil to further it\u2019s agenda through your silence and lack of action, or you are a hero wholeheartedly fighting for those that can\u2018t fight for themselves. There is no middle ground. Dare to become a hero. I sense that soon we are going to need them.<\/p>\n
Living to touch God’s heart, I\u2019ve been reading a book about racial reconciliation and injustice. In this book the main character Clarence, a black man, tells a tale from the fifties when he was nine and his family accidentally walked into the \u201cwrong\u201d restaurant. His parents had either missed the \u201cwhites only\u201d and \u201cno colored\u201d signs or in that particular […]<\/p>\nRead More Big racists, little racists, and heroes<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,36,1],"tags":[218,92,219,14,44,220,221,222,223,224,225,226,227,228,229,230,231],"class_list":{"0":"post-441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-blast-archive","8":"category-fire-in-my-bones","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"tag-abolition","11":"tag-abortion","12":"tag-black","13":"tag-chris-ulery","14":"tag-christopher-ray-ulery","15":"tag-civil-rights","16":"tag-health-care","17":"tag-heroes","18":"tag-holocaust","19":"tag-jews","20":"tag-murder","21":"tag-prejudice","22":"tag-racism","23":"tag-racists","24":"tag-slavery","25":"tag-white","26":"tag-womens-rights","28":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/divine-romance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/racism.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p94i1z-77","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divine-romance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/divine-romance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/divine-romance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divine-romance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divine-romance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/divine-romance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1886,"href":"https:\/\/divine-romance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/1886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divine-romance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divine-romance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divine-romance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divine-romance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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