Thank you so much for saying diversity for diversity’s sake doesn’t work, and it’s an insult to those being invited, AMEN!! We do need a spectrum of brothers and sisters, and we do need to be in proximity to each other, yes! 👏👏👏 Thanks so much brothers, love you and what you’re doing in the kingdom, keep it up! 🙌🙏🔥

These intros were pretty close!! 🔥🔥 Slight edge to Ameen, though. 😂😂

Another phenomenal episode of SOUTHSIDE “hallelujah” RABBI

Yo these stories were unbelievable!

You know, I really appreciate you guys. Convos like this matter. I just came across this group called Black Voices Movement and the amount of vitriol and hatred that they are receiving for naming their discipleship movement is absolutely disgusting to say the least. It’s OK for the Celtic women, a group of all white women of Celtic dissent to worship in the style that they were taught from their ancestors. It’s OK for Asians and Asian Americans to express themselves culturally in worship, but when Black people get together and do it in the construct of America it’s seen as racist and what I really think is happening is that Black people in America cannot express their blackness without it being juxtaposed by whiteness & the white oppression that was forced upon them us. There is, I feel an almost demonic attack on black Americans and their ability to express their culture or report any grievances in society without being labeled as racist as they express it. And this because of the construct of America and the history of oppression from other ethnicities, now being imputed on us who are mostly peaceful, i.e., Martin Luther King, i.e., Malcolm, X at the end of his life. That to me is a sick and twisted schemer, but now the oppressed people-because they have freedom cannot express themselves freely - are now being labeled as the same evil as their oppressors, when they are simply expressing themselves. It’s funny that their name is black voices because I honestly feel that America is positioning itself to silence blackness or any sort of diversity in present day. I see it with certain states taking black history education out of school. I see it with the overhaul of affirmative action when affirmative action with the problem, it was nepotism. I see it with the over incarceration of Black people often times receiving longer sentences for lesser crimes. And it just bothers me when a person who is not a part of my culture, tries to impute the very evil and demonic ideologies of white supremacy on me because I like to remember what my people went through, I finally have loved the way that my voice sounds and it’s soulfulness, or I’m asking simply for a seat at the table. But that can’t be expressed in itself because they’re thinking that we are them and we are not. Culturally, Black people are forgiving when it comes to institutions and systems and societies of racism. we are collaborative when I look at Africa, and how much collaboration goes on between other nations, but they want to impute to us as a premises ideology that not only is racist, but is inherently evil. That’s not our iniquity. Do we have issues? Yes and that’s what I believe organizations like black voices moving is trying to solve but they won’t let us solve it because they don’t understand it, and not only do they not understand it, but they’re not allowing us to express ourselves because they don’t feel as if we have the Intellegence to have a different one of you to come correct when we talk about race relations. I think it’s important that you’re telling the stories guys because there’s a lot of ignorance out there when it comes to race and race relations I would like to hear and see you guys talk about how God honors are ethnicity well also stripping us of social hierarchies. I really feel like that would be a good podcast as well. To all of my white brothers and sisters, when we talk about our blackness, it is not to put any other race down. It is to empower ourselves to the same platform, and the same level of playing field is everyone else to miss understand that is egregious and I really hope that every white person that comes in contact with a black person understands that especially white Christians. Because the SOME white Christians are the ones that are leading the imputation of white supremacy ideologies on Black people who express their culture. I say the same thing for my Asian, American brothers and sisters when they ask for you to remember their chains as Asian people and remember what they have to go through in the sickness that they face it’s not asking and demanding supremacy or Asian supremacy its asking for equality and I believe that is the biggest set of the American public school educational system that we have not taught culture and how to respect it within our own environment Within our own borders.

Collaboration is God's way. Totally agree. My question is this. As long as we continue to self-differentiate ourselves into the fake category of race, aren't we sabotaging and undermining full opportunity for collaboration?

Morning y’all, when y’all bringing Andy Mineo on? Y’all already got most of the crew on, why not finish it

Powerful

I'm just surprised that these two have managed to make it 5 episodes without anyone talking about how Ameen pulled a Samson and cut his dreads off. 😂

As a white man who lives in a predominantly white area and goes to a predominantly white church, how do I make a difference in my direct community and especially my church? (Not rhetorical or backhanded question, I genuinely want tips on how to do so)

The only comment I have for this podcast episode is: Does anyone in Pastor Chang’s family cook beef bugogi, and if so, can I be invited over for dinner?? 😂 Even if they do, it won’t be as good as my dear Yumi’s, who was born in South Korea & came here for an extremely better life. We won’t get into what her life was like in Korea in these comments. I stayed with her for a whole summer when I was 16. Maybe it’s just me. I try to put myself in the shoes of these powerful white folks who expect people to be like them who are always talked about in these podcasts, and it’s impossible for me. But we all have different experiences. KB’s still my favorite rapper, though.

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