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Racism isn’t restricted to a particular decade of birth or location. In fact, people born in the 1980′s have grown up ‘full-blooded’ racist.
I have to tell you, the more I watch the trailer for John Piper’s ‘Bloodline’ the more it disturbs me.
This is wrong in so many ways on so many levels, yet, I know that the army of YRR’s will defend it to the tooth and beyond. Go with idol young man, go with idol.
The trailer looks like a Hollywood manufactured attention getter, and that’s about it. I almost expected Robert Duvall walking in the background. Of course, if I’d seen Bobby, you’d really have my attention. I love cowboys.
I am not a negative person, I don’t look for things to smack down, and this site is most definitely not a ‘watchblog’, but I find this video offensive.
Piper, in his trailer for his book says this:
The reason I love the Gospel of Jesus so much is because I grew up in this home, as a full-blooded racist.
It was an ugly time, it wasn’t beautiful, wasn’t separate but equal, it wasn’t respectful. Separate motels, separate restaurants, separate churches, separate restrooms, separate drinking fountains, right beside each other on the same walls, we couldn’t even drink from the same fountains what was that supposed to communicate…separate public swimming pools. It was a cesspool of sin and I was swimming in it….So I love the Gospel….
I grew up in the South. Born in 1961, Arkansas, Mississippi Delta region, and my goodness, all that I am and have lived tells me that John Piper is full of….imagination and marketing.
When I was growing up in the southeastern part of Arkansas, racism was alive and well, somewhere, but not where I lived.
We had negro maids for years, and we loved and provided for them, and they did the same for us. We were friends. We loved one another. They were part of the family, literally.
They made me sandwiches for lunch and Kool-Aid, and played with me as a kid, and took care of me while my dad was at the church studying in order to feed the congregation the Gospel truths on Sunday, and while my mother, a nurse, worked at the hospital to help provide for our family.
Some of my best friends were negroes. They weren’t ashamed, and neither was I.
While I was out playing one day, I was hit by a laundry truck, knocked into the ditch, and my siblings took me to our maid, a negro woman who loved us, and she called for help, and I was taken to the hospital to be cared for by the doctors…and my mother, who was on duty that day.
Yes, there is racism, but it is not a product of the South. It is a product of unregenerate men and women. It is an element of hate that has nothing to do with where you live, but in the heart of who and what you are. Racism isn’t restricted to a particular decade of birth or location. In fact, people born in the 1980′s have grown up ‘full-blooded’ racist.
When I was growing up in the Mississippi delta and we had negro maids and relations, this much was true:
- It was beautiful.
- It was separate but equal
- It was respectful
- It was not separate hotels and restaurants, but they ate in our home and slept in our beds, which we made for them.
- They used our restrooms, used our fountains and went to our churches.
- We swam in the same creeks and same public swimming pools.
John Piper is going to sell a lot of books, no doubt.
But make no mistake, his innuendos, his implications of the south, his imaginary racist view of the same, if they appear in this book of his, will only prove that this man desires to sell books and leave a legacy more than communicate the truth of growing up in the South.
If he does that, then for all his contributions to the Church at large, John Piper is still full of …imagination.
hadn’t looked at it that way. Good stuff. Thanks brother.
That is good stuff.
I also was born in 1961. Racism was also alive and well where I grew up in Miami, Florida. But I didn’t see it or know it.
I had black friends, Haitian friends, Cuban Friends, etc.
We were kids, they were my friends… What did I know?
“We had “negro” maids.” No racism here… Keep going… Wow. “Seperate but equal.” Now that’s imagination JT. I’m not YRR in the sense that you’re using it, and I’m not defending JP. What I’m saying is you sound like you identify more with the “south” than you do with the Gospel. I’ve checked out your blog for a while now so I’m used to your wild claims, but this one really takes the cake.
Oh, one more thing. You were born a full 15 or 16 years after JP, the worlds you two grew up in were completely different.
I think the issue at hand here can be best summed up in this quote: “Yes, there is racism, but it is not a product of the South. It is a product of unregenerate men and women. It is an element of hate that has nothing to do with where you live, but in the heart of who and what you are. Racism isn’t restricted to a particular decade of birth or location. In fact, people born in the 1980′s have grown up ‘full-blooded’ racist.”
I agree with you 100%. I tried to post a quote that agrees with you, but I guess JT didn’t like it, because it never posted. Anyway, here it is again, in case he’s feeling generous:
“Many things have changed since 1963. And some deep
not changed. Let me illustrate. There are probably more vicious white supremacists in America today than there were in 1968. The victims are as likely to be Latinos or Somali immigrants as African Americans whose ancestors have been here for centuries. The Ku Klux Klan has no corner on hate any more.
On June 7, 1998—that’s ’98, not ’68—outside Jasper, Texas, James Byrd, a forty-nine-year-old African American, was beaten and chained by his ankles to the back of a pickup truck and dragged two miles until his head ripped off. The perpetrators had racist tattoos, one of them depicting a black
last forty years, but in some people some deep things haven’t changed.”
There is still plenty of hate
I am feeling generous. For the record, see comment policy under the main menu. And it’s a rare thing that I would ever quote MLK, Jr.
BTW, the above quote comes from the first chapter of the book in question… http://cdn.desiringgod.org/pdf/blog/bloodlines_introduction.pdf
That tidbit doesn’t help, seeing there is no mention here of the origins of the KKK vs that which existed in 1968. Quite a difference, being that the original KKK had honorable intentions (at least before God) and, historically speaking, were more in line with the founding fathers of this country in their beginning than is now perceived. I don’t defend the current KKK, but I would the original, who tried to rid the Siouth of the ruthless, wicked carpetbaggers who came down into the South to begin reconstruction. Again, it’s very common, and unfortunate, to see people automatically connect the South with racism. Thanks for the proof. You helped.
JP will soon be introducing the PC Bible with only northern Baptist commentary notes, largely Arminian since Calvinism was the mark of Southern Baptists, whom JP judges and wants to redact from Baptist history. They never would approve of his doctrine of Christian Hedonism though either.
My first thought is, “Why submit or ‘publish’ comments on a book before reading it?” I’m just sayin’.
Eleanor Paar
Houston, TX
I didn’t. It was on the video.
I hope you know in my former post I was not being rude towards anyone, simply arguing from the other side. I am disappointed that you removed it from here, I think it is important to have opinions from all sides of the spectrum. I am sorry if it may have offended you.
Not at all Sam. Please see comment policy under the ‘Home’ menu. Thanks.