Everything is Secondary, week 2

Ethnic allegiance must be secondary to our allegiance to God.

“So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation, anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching the good news of peace through Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all)” (Acts 10).

When I was in high school, Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney released a song called “Ebony and Ivory.” It summed up the state of racial disharmony from a position of hope for a better future. They sang,

“We all know that people are the same wherever you go.

There is good and bad in ev’ryone.

We learn to live when we learn to give

Each other what we need to survive, together alive”

(Paul McCartney, 1982, © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Tratore)

Still image from The Paul McCartney Project, February 1982

That song wouldn’t fly today. Instead of growing toward a unified humanity, we have become a nation of intersectionalities and hyphenations. We are categorized as either oppressed or oppressors based on where our ancestors…