The Black Community's Racism

The black community needs to repent of their partiality. Karmelo Anthony committed murder, and he should be punished accordingly.

Murder should not be a path to fame and wealth for black young men.

You get more of what you reward.

There is a clear and consistent push to demonize white men in the West. Whether it is a Netflix series pretending that Muslim rape gangs are not the primary threat to women in the UK or an American culture making criminals into heroes simply because of their skin color or a spaceflight in which Katy Perry celebrates the divine feminine, the message is all the same.

White men are the problem. White men are the threat. White men need to sit down and shut up and take their estrogen pills.

Why? What is the goal? Conquest.

White men stand in the way. White men are the ones that, writ broadly, have cohesive families that they might want to fight for. White men are the ones who might defend Christendom in the city gates. White men are the ones that might stand in the way of globalist tyranny.

The best way to win a war is to convince the opposition to feel guilty about putting up a fight.

This is all true, and it is true on its face. It is obvious. The game could not be more clear.

But the question is, what is the Christian response?

What is the message we should give to frustrated young white men?

One option is that we could keep blaming them for everything. We can berate them for their bad habits and their failures and hang all the problems of society around their neck.

Another option is that we could simply seek to defend them. We could act in an effeminate, empathy-driven way, and seek to clear them of all accusations and tell them what they want to hear – that women are the problem, that blacks are the problem, that Jews are the problem, that white men are the greatest humans of all.

Might be a really good way to build a following, to be honest.

Then there is the Christian option.

This would be to teach young white men to deal in terms of reality – to recognize that there really are problems that we face – and then to teach them that we need to deal with those problems not by returning evil for evil or insult or insult (1 Peter. 3:9), not by stewing in our own juices of bitterness until we become the new most violent demographic, not by meditating on how broken the machine is, not by learning to hate women and minorities, not by daydreaming about one day having a great White America again.

No, that’s just trading one error for another, one sin for another. That’s just taking partiality on one side and responding to it by partiality on the other side.

That is not Biblical. It is not Christian. It is still wicked sin, and its end is still the way of death.

The Christian response to injustice is justice. The Christian response to unrighteousness is righteousness.

And let me be clear – these are things that men of every skin color should do. There are plenty of great black men out there who see these problems too, and they want to see truth and righteousness prevail as well.

The skin color game is just the current manifestation of spiritual warfare. The devil doesn’t really care about melanin count. He will play whatever game he can so long as it allows him to attack Christ. That is what this is really about.

1. Speak the truth (Deut. 16:20)

Don’t be afraid to be called a racist. Or any other name, for that matter. Our job is to courageously speak that which is true.

So if there is an epidemic of violence among black young men – and there is – don’t pretend that there isn’t. It is not somehow righteous to lie, or to protect people from the consequences of their own actions.

It is, in fact, unloving to insulate people against reality. This is true of transgenderism, and it is true of bailing out a young murderer because he happens to have dark skin.

If we don’t speak the truth, we cannot get an accurate diagnosis. Without an accurate diagnosis, there’s no hope for a cure.

It’s not loving people to encourage them to avoid the cure.

This is actually, foundationally, a Gospel issue. If we tell the black community (and women, and trans kids) that they are not the problem, that they have no sin, that they are simply victims of the system- we have just inoculated them to their need for repentance and faith in Jesus. We have robbed them of the hope that is found in repentance and forgiveness.

If your kid keeps burning his hand on the stove, it isn’t loving to teach him to blame the stove.

2. Speak the truth in love (Mic. 6:8)

It is not only possible, but it is absolutely necessary to speak the truth in love.

In fact, if you begin to speak the truth in hatred or in bitterness or in vengeance, you will discover that soon enough you will not be speaking the truth anymore.

So while we should tell the truth about reality, this does not mean that we should then devolve into name-calling, race-baiting, and grievance-spreading.

The devil liked it when the left played that game, and he would love to get the right out on the playing field as well.

But for the Christian, this is not an option.

3. Speak the truth without partiality

This means that instead of responding to the very real problem of black partiality in America by instituting our own white partiality in America, we respond with justice.

In other words, we don’t just speak the truth when it is convenient for a “our side.” Speak the truth, whoever it offends, seeking to please only one – Jesus Christ.

Every white person I know would unequivocally condemn Austin Metcalf if the situation had been reversed. It must remain this way. We should condemn wickedness wherever we find it, whoever it offends.

People who say “we can’t give caveats or hold our side accountable because there is a war on” are people who don’t want peace. But Jesus said “blessed are the peacemakers.” (Matthew 5)

We should all be well aware that there is a war on. We just need to be fighting the right enemy in the right way.

4. Buy a sword

Christian men should be self-disciplined and formidable protectors. We should be wise in conflict avoidance, humble in conflict de-escalation, and lethal in the defense of the innocent. We should teach our wives and our children these things as well. (Neh. 4:14)

Why? For the preservation of the white race? No. For the prevention of wickedness.

There is a huge difference between those two statements, and it really shouldn’t be hard to understand.

5. Preach the whole Gospel

We need to keep the focus on what’s really going on here. We preach a Gospel of total authority that means real justice and real mercy and real love and real courage and all of it pointed against the real enemy- the principalities and powers that are at war with Christ. (Eph. 6:12)

So long as we keep thinking that it’s black against white, we have totally lost the plot.

The devil does not much care which groups he convinces to fight with each other. Blacks against whites, men against women, NBA players against dwarves, he doesn’t care. The goal is the rage, the anger, the dissension, the distraction.

No, not for us. We speak the truth, and we offer an invitation.

Come and have your black heart be made white through the red blood of the Lamb.

Those are the only colors that matter.