Last week’s Does Ignoring Racism = Ignoring the Gospel post continues to generate some helpful comments.  Some of the comments raised the question of entitlement to which Jas Dye responded,

Entitlement doesn’t just surround poor blacks, but also poor whites, poor Indians, etc. Hell, I think the worst, really, are uber-rich (mostly white) as we are seeing now. AIG, The Detroit Three, JPMorgan Chase, Bear Stearns, on and on and on. They all believe that they are somehow entitled to be treated well and that someone somewhere should pick up the bill for their behavior.

Regarding “color blindness” as the way to interact with issues of race and ethnicity Anthony G wrote,

God has created culture and ethnicity as a good thing, and the differences among us, when valued and learned from and utilized well, make our communities strong. When we stick with color-blindness, we are ignoring those differences, because we want everyone to be the same. If I operate under the assumption that we’re all the same, I will encounter and deal with people out of my mono-culturally white, bi-racial experience.

Stanford takes the conversation in a new direction,

But I was wondering…how do these principles apply to immigrants? Let’s say a European (white) immigrant and an African (black) immigrant became citizens today…would the white man be in historical debt to the black man even though neither of their ancestors were involved? I don’t know the answer…but it seems like how one answerd this question would be symptomatic of how one saw the problem.

There are many other comments, some that would agree with those quoted above and others that provoked these responses.  I’m not sure anyone really interacted with the post’s original question (Does ignoring racism = ignoring the Gospel?), but we can pick that up another day.  I’m grateful for the charitable conversation on this blog; I learn more from your thoughts than anything I post.  As always, thanks for reading and commenting.