Huh? Southern Baptists are racist?

If this story weren’t appearing at a reputable outlet, I’d have difficulty believing it; apparently, black college students are complaining that the Southern Baptist Convention isn’t reaching out to them so vigorously as it ought.

Protestors to SBC: ‘All souls matter’ in campus ministry

African-American demonstrators gathered Nov. 18 near James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., to protest what they claim is racial bias in the Southern Baptist Convention’s efforts to evangelize students at American colleges and universities.

Many things come right to mind; in no particular order.

  • During the civil rights movement, the grandparents and parents of Southern Baptists who are now college age stood at roadsides throwing rocks at black protest marchers. Their pastors stood at roadside throwing rocks, too, and recruited thuggish nitwits willing to dress-up in white sheets and harass — and worse — blacks, Catholics, and Jews. So the protesters are probably right; talk-talk-talk to the contrary, they probably won’t ever be truly welcome in Southern Baptist churches.

  • The south’s fundamentalist Christianity provided the rationale for slavery, and later the Jim Crow laws. How is it even possible that college-age black students don’t know that, and want to even associate with Southern Baptists? They should join the rest of the decent world and rejoice that between 700- and 1000 SBC churches, mostly rural, fail every year.

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