Unlike Me... and That's ok!
A black man, white man, Hispanic man and Asian man walk into a church…. Sounds like the start of an interesting joke. I didn’t say good joke but interesting. As a white male I have been struggling over the last few months. It’s hard to know exactly what to say to my black or Hispanic brothers and sisters given the climate that we now live. It’s hard for me as a white man to understand or comprehend the otherness that other racial groups feel when approached by police. It’s easy to make comments that ‘if they have done nothing wrong then they have nothing to fear!’ Coming from my worldview I have no frame of reference to fear others in authority, i.e. police or law enforcement. I didn’t live through jim crow. I am not an undocumented person cringing when I hear the acronym I.C.E. The idea that I have not had these life experiences and have no way of ever understanding fully the plight of the minority ways heavy at times. I care deeply for many in the minority. It hurts me when I se