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An Open Letter to my Black Evangelical Friends

aburrows Wrote: Nov 15, 2012 10:28 AM

THANK YOU! Not only that, the entire 12 percent of the population didn't even vote. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of young black people that aren't able to vote yet. There's also blacks who did not like Obama, so they did not vote at all because they definitely couldn't stand Romney. There were probably a good 6% of the black pop. that voted. Yeah, that's really going to sway who's going to be elected. I am black & voted for the lesser of 2 evils. But yet, peeps think blacks don't actually think about what would happen if we voted Romney in office. The man has NEVER shown that he cared for those less fortunate than him. NEVER. So, I went with the person that actually tried to organize those poor communities. Wow, how racist of me, huh?

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An Open Letter to my Black Evangelical Friends

I am not writing this letter to accuse but rather to advance understanding. And even though I am white, I am not writing as an outsider but as a fellow evangelical, part of the same spiritual family. May I pose some candid questions?

Are you guilty, on any level, of blind allegiance to the Democratic party? And, on Election Day, did any of you compromise your convictions out of racial solidarity?

I have been very open in my criticism of white evangelicals, pointing out how we often put our trust in the Republican party and how we look to the latest...

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