Racism rears its ugly head

"There aren't enough purple managers in baseball."

"There aren't enough purple players in the NBA."

"There are too many purple men in prison."

"The military has an inordinate number of purple people in its ranks."

Anybody out there besides me ready to retch?

Comments like all of the above indicate that race-based conduct is alive and well today. We have bit so deeply upon the barbed hook of the post-modern mindset that we have ensnared ourselves into the point of apologizing to anybody and everybody for any cruelty that happened to any of their ancestors, any of like national origin, or any of like "racial" makeup. Our nation has gone so ludicrously overboard that reverse discrimination is now the norm and is accepted.

Do we have racists out there? You bet; red and yellow, black and white (by the way, nobody is really any of those colors. We're all variations on brown). Which people group in America has the largest per capita cluster of racists, those folks who think things should happen to themselves or other folks because of skin-color or ethnicity? I don't know. I have a hunch, but that might construe me as racist.

How about we try this: merit. Who's the best player? Pick him. Doesn't matter if the other guy is purple and you have the lowest percentage of purple players on your team. Pick the best guy. If the best guy is purple, grab him and sign him lickety split. If the next eight best guys are purple, sign them, too. If they're green, sign 'em up.

Will there be racist coaches? Yep. Managers? Yep. Company presidents? Yep. What's great, though, is usually these knuckleheads will open their trap in front of an open microphone at just the right moment and 'BAM', they'll be out of work faster than you can say "David Duke."

It's not Barack Obama's skin that drives me batty; it's his inane socialist policies, his meager political experience, and his appalling history of associations with folk that would get any other politician forever dismissed from public service. He is far and away the best orator I've seen run for president in my lifetime.

Would anyone except the cockroaches of our culture have any problem if we had (ethnicity/race of your choice)-Americans as President, Vice-President, SECDEF and Secretary of State? Who cares??? It's what's inside the head and heart that make the man (ooh, now I'm sexist).

Paul had to hammer this point to the Galatians when he said:

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:28).

And the folks at Corinth:

For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:13).

And the Colossians:

...There is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all (Colossians 3:11).

The nails He took were steely gray and what He shed was blood red. For God so loved the world. Not the purples, not the greens. Not even the blues. Christ alone can raze such barriers. One day it will not matter. To the glory of God.

Until then, by the power of the Holy Spirit, could we please drop the "shade of melanin" from discussions about folks and get down to what's ticking in the head and heart?

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