Here’s the problem. We’re dealing with people. There will never be a solution to housing that is completely perfect. Perfect for us white folks usually means that we live in a suburb away from any signs of poverty. What the article failed to investigate more thouroughly was the impact of sprawl. As wealth moves out further and further away, it only stretches out the sustainability of the housing market, and as a result creates a volatile environment for crime.

Everyone likes to complain about government, and I’m not not a fan of many government policies, but the Hope VI program has been something that is worth striving for. We as caucasian Americans are going to have to get over the fact that poverty has deep roots in oppression. It’s not going to fix itself overnight. The best hope for us is to learn to live together as one people. Hope VI is atleast an effort to make this happen.

If you don’t believe it, take a trip to downtown Memphis – visit the uptown neighborhood. It’s not all composed of “rich white folks with in the eddie bauer chairs” sitting opposite of the poor black folks. It’s not perfect, but where else in the city are people trying to make it work? We’ve got to try don’t we?

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Victoria’s right. Scripture consistently prohibits God’s covenant people intermarrying with those outside God’s covenant. It has nothing whatever to do with skin color. Even under the Old Covenant, Jews legally married Jewish proselytes. Christ’s ancestry even included women who weren’t ethnically Jewish.

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In Nehemiah 13 —- Nehemiah is speaking to Jews who had taken wives from heathen nations.

We as Believers are not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Today we are not under the law, we can marry whom we wish, but they must be Believers.

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I’m also opposed to homosexuality and gay marriage. Which has nothing at all to do with my point, which is how we got to gay marriage.

And who’s mincing words? You love to quote the parts of the Bible where God condemns same gender sex, but you ignore those passages where he condemns interracial sex/marriage, like Nehemiah.

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If so, how can you ignore this passage: “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.” (Romans 1:26+27)

If not, then I know we disagree. Why mince words? Move on, please.

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In Peter 2:9 —- Because those who have come to Christ are a chosen elect race, we are an elect nation, (church) just as the children of Israel were elect and are a race.

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The problem with those quotes is that the first passage is not written to Jews, and apparently doesn’t mean “race” as we know it, probably just “people group.” I don’t think there’s anything wrong in using the word “race” for skn colors and similar distinctions, but they aren’t really very important in the grand scheme of things.

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1 Now when these things had been completed, the princes approached me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians and the Amorites.

2 For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has intermingled with the peoples of the lands; indeed, the hands of the princes and the rulers have been foremost in this unfaithfulness. Ezra 8

The dictionary meaning of “race.”

RACE

Definition

1. A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
2. A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.
3. A genealogical line; a lineage.
4. Humans considered as a group.

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The strange thing is that this truth about race is one of the few things that most liberals and I agree with. Postmodernists understand it. Christians understand it. Only incurable modernists, apparently, can’t let go of the idea that race is a biological category.

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