I have been mostly silent through all of this, mainly just trying to figure out how the best way to respond is. I know that silence isn’t great, but I also didn’t want to be shamed into acting or posting on my instagram story and knowing that my heart really hadn’t grasped the fullness of what’s going on.
I was reading in Acts this week when, finally, I felt my own anger rise up inside of me.
Peter said to them, “You all know that it is against the Jewish laws for me to associate with or even visit the home of one who is not a Jew. Yet God has shown me that I should never view anyone as inferior or ritually unclean…Now I know for certain that God doesn’t show favoritism with people but treats everyone on the same basis. It makes no difference what race of people one belongs to.” Acts 10:28-34 (Passion Translation)
I have so many thoughts racing around in my brain that it’s hard to even pinpoint the ones I should say.
First off. Black Lives Matter.
Second. It is NEVER okay for anyone, ESPECIALLY a Christian who follows God and believes the Bible is fully inspired by Him, to say or believe otherwise.
Third. “Black Lives Matter” does not mean All Lives don’t.
Fourth. When God says that he loves someone and that their life matters, yet we are shaming, killing, ignoring, or saying/thinking we are better than, we are in direct disagreement with the kingdom of God.
What will you say when you, a Christian, get to judgment day and God asks “why didn’t you love my people?”
Though fear is not a reason to start caring for Black people, or jumping on the Black Lives Matter wagon. You join the cause simple because they do. Black Lives Matter. And to live in a world that this is even a question is infuriating.
To any Black person that may read this,
I am sorry. Sorry for my silence, and sorry that anyone and everyone has made you feel inferior just for being born a different color. You matter. You are beautiful. You are powerful. You are loved.
Sincerely,
A formerly blind, white Christian woman.