Black People @ CBC
Posted on March 15th, 2008 by Reformed Pope into the Christian Pop Culture categoryLast week Negrodamus sent me this email:
I couldn't articulate it well enough, but I think this is the kind of Black Person CBC wants apart their church:
I hesitate to comment seeing as how I am rather light skinned…but the video is kinda funny and someone really should do a Black CBC Christian parody, which would be even funnier.
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March 17th, 2008 at 5:46 am
City Bible did like to trot out the two black people that attended their church as a way to show everyone they were diverse.
However, CBC never really wanted blacks in leadership, unlike the Republican party which actually did give blacks a role in running the country. (Condi Rice, Colin Powell.)
March 18th, 2008 at 6:48 am
So if a black man is a republican that automatically makes him a sellout?
March 18th, 2008 at 6:53 am
No, it makes him a Republican, which is much much worse.
Actually, I was kind of confused by the video myself, and didn’t quite understand the correlation to City Bible.
March 18th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Video reminded me of one of my musical friends, who was born a Jew, but who received Jesus in His early 20’s, becoming a “Messianic Jew” … he’s often joked that IF he really wanted fame as a singer/songwriter, all he had to do was accept the “Messianic Jew” label and he’d have made a good career of it … something about the ‘novelty’ of converted Jews among evangelicals …
Ever notice how so many evangelists on the circuit have gawd-awful stories about their murderous, adulterous/promiscuous, drug addicted, homosexual pasts? Heck, yesterday while channel surfing I saw a snippet of some evangelist who was billed as a “former mob boss” … not sure whether he was on before or after the former hooker …
March 19th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Jeremiah said:
No not at all, but in places like CBC there was no freedom of political expression to be anything but a republican!
Catalyst said:
The leadership would constantly pull me aside to reaffirm republicanism by suggesting I look to JC Watts and Thomas Sowell (both black republicans) for political direction. I once suggested that I had more liberal “left” leanings politically and of course someone in leadership handed me a history book called “Light and the Glory” suggesting that I get my history and politics straight. If you remember, I worked behind the iron curtains of CBC and listen to them thrash Clinton, whom I actually supported, but I’d be damn if I told them that. There was such a strong base note of republicanism at CBC that you knew if you told them you were a registered democrat that would be it in terms of a prominent role at CBC.
March 19th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Haha I love the naïveness of such a suggestion. It’s like they think that people only care about superficial similarities in a leader. If they can find someone who believes what they believe and thinks like think but looks or acts like you, then they’ll tell you that you should aspire to be like that person.