Sometimes I come across things that make me scratch my head. They are things that would be so off the wall that usually they would be hard to believe. The NAACP meeting with the Klan was a shocker, but when I came across this story last night, it was hard to believe that it was almost laughable.
In North Carolina there stands a church, The Freedom House Church, and like most churches, Freedom house has greeters, something similar to Walmart. Those are the people welcoming you in at the front door, they usually tend to have you off to an usher who then shows you to your seat. It seems the lead pastor sent out an email to the congregation looking for more greeters and well, her words could have and should been chosen a little more wisely.
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Now I thought a church was supposed to build a so called "color blind congregation", at least that's how I was raised and yet there is a Black woman of the cloth seeking "white only greeters". I have an amazingly vivid imagination, I really do and I couldn't have thought this story up no matter how hard I tried or what substance I was under the influence of. This is just too strange, too funny, and too sad to be real, and yet...
I just don't get it. Why is it so hard for everyone to grasp that attaching a race qualification to a job description NEVER leads to good things???
ReplyDeleteOh and a church with a PR firm?!? Psh...they can't be hurting that bad for money.