It would seem that they had certain attitudes about the Ethiopians and felt that she was just like the label they had put on the whole group. Would not that be unfair to her? Is that justice? The racial prejudice continued to separate real association between the Jews and the Gentiles, the Jews and the Samaritans, and was an element of dissension in the New Testament Church. Right in our generation, I remember signs on the back of the bus that read, colored passengers take rear seats. There were two water fountains: White and Colored. There were three restrooms: Men, Women, Colored. The whites had a name for the blacks and the blacks had a name for the whites. Do you think that minority groups take the injustice of their oppressors without reaction? There is deep rooted prejudice among many people on each side. I was well acquainted with the feelings between blacks and whites, but was shocked at what I learned on my first trip to Mexico. We were spending the night at a border church memberĺs house. He was stationed at a nearby Air Force base. I simply made the remark, I guess that you have really enjoyed living this close to Mexico. He replied, I will be getting out in six more months and I hope that I never see another Mexican again. I hurtůI could not believe it. My idea of the Mexican people had always been that they were our friendly neighbors to the South and I was intrigued by their culture. Then I learned that the Mexican people had bitter feelings against the Anglos also. I even discovered that the Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were prejudiced against each other. My first attempt to reach into other cultures with the Gospel message was when I directed a coffeehouse ministry in1970. We were working late at night trying to get ready to open the new center. We had stopped to eat and I was halfway through a ham sandwich when a young black boy stopped at the door and looked in. I went to the door an...
