Sunday continues to be the most segregated times of the week.   Every sunday morning our respected races go to our church. We take our places and talk about changing the world.  I think we would chalk it up to we all worship different so this is our way of worshiping next to people who  and feel like [...]]]>

Sunday continues to be the most segregated times of the week.   Every sunday morning our respected races go to our church. We take our places and talk about changing the world.  I think we would chalk it up to we all worship different so this is our way of worshiping next to people who  and feel like us.  Enlightened  ones realize that all black, chinese, white, etc. dont all think the same.  That’s about as stupid as you are trying to talk black or why you trying to act white.  Take the company I work for. When I am asked hey can you take more pictures of minorities to show all races I say “well I would be taking pictures of the same groups” and then I say they dont come.  For the few that do come you may ask do I go out of my way to encourage them and welcome them. I  would ask welcome them to what.  I have pitched people of color groups on the stage only to be told that our guest arent into that stuff.  I almost went too far.  I have lived in a weird sort of world all my life.  I was born in Jamaica to great parents that divorced when I was in I think 6th grade it was uneventful. I dont even remember it. Anyway they taught me to be me.  Never pushed who I should be with or even question me about who I dated.  That is another story. Anyway I never understand why people are so scared to talk about race. Its usually people who never had to deal with it so they ask what’s the big deal. When when you’ve been called a nigger on the basketball court you end up having to deal with it.  When I walk in downtown birmingham you can feel it.  Race is still factor.  Every time you that hair stands up on the back of your neck when you take the wrong turn in a neighborhood. Race is still a factor.  Our company does try. They really do. I am proud of that. But there is still room.  That goes from the music we put on the stage to the people we have speak to students to even how the message is crafted.  So what do I think of Race Im voting for Obama because he’s black. Gotcha.  Oh and I’m not scared of talking about Politics either.  Im proud to be in a country where we can have a knock down drag out fight with politics and no one has to die.  I know strange to be proud of that but I am.   Ok Im at the end of the line. I’m proud of my self  I think.  Look people. Be proud of what we have done and will do.  Tune next time when we talk Colonialism and how it still effects Africa today. More than you know it.  I’m also still adhering to my no read policy so if there is a didn’t that should be a did. you know what I mean. 

By Roland MartinCNN Contributor

Editor’s note: Roland Martin is a CNN contributor and talk-show host on WVON-AM in Chicago, Illinois. He [...]]]> I read this today. Why does it seem that churches aren’t the first to take on social issues. Do I agree totally with this article and take it on as my own. No not really.

By Roland Martin
CNN Contributor

Editor’s note: Roland Martin is a CNN contributor and talk-show host on WVON-AM in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of “Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith.”

NEW YORK (CNN) — When did it come to the point that being a Christian meant caring about only two issues,­ abortion and homosexuality?

Ask the nonreligious what being a Christian today means, and based on what we see and read, it’s a good bet they will say that followers of Jesus Christ are preoccupied with those two points.

Poverty? Whatever. Homelessness? An afterthought. A widening gap between the have and have-nots? Immaterial. Divorce? The divorce rate of Christians mirrors the national average, so that’s no big deal.

The point is that being a Christian should be about more than abortion and homosexuality, and it’s high time that those not considered a part of the religious right expose the hypocrisy of our brothers and sisters in Christianity and take back the faith. And those on the left who believe they have a “get out of sin free” card must not be allowed to justify their actions.

Many people believe we are engaged in a holy war. And we are. But it’s not with Muslims. The real war — ­ the silent war ­– is being engaged among Christians, and that’s what we must set our sights on.

As we celebrate Holy Week, our focus is on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. But aren’t we also to recommit ourselves to live more like Jesus? Did Jesus spend his time focusing on all that he didn’t like, or did Jesus raise the consciousness of the people to understand love, compassion and teach them about following the will of God?

As a layman studying to receive a master’s in Christian communications, and the husband of an ordained minister, it’s troubling to listen to “Christian radio” and hear the kind of hate spewing out of the mouths of my brothers and sisters in the faith.

In fact, I’ve grown tired of people who pimp God. That’s right; we have a litany of individuals today who are holy, holy, holy, sing hallelujah, talk about how they love the Lord, but when it’s time to walk the walk, somehow the spirit evaporates.

A couple of years ago I took exception to an e-mail blast from the Concerned Women for America. The group was angry that Democrats were blocking certain judges put up for the federal bench by President Bush. It called on Americans to fight Democrats who wanted to keep Christians off the bench.

So I called and sent an e-mail asking, “So, where were you when President Clinton appointed Christian judges to the bench? Were they truly behind Christian judges, or Republican Christian judges?

Surprise, surprise. There was never a response.

An African-American pastor I know in the Midwest was asked by a group of mostly white clergy to march in an anti-abortion rally. He was fine with that, but then asked the clergy if they would work with him to fight crack houses in predominantly black neighborhoods.

“That’s really your problem,” he was told.

They saw abortion as a moral imperative, but not a community ravaged by crack.

If abortion and gay marriage are part of the Christian agenda, I have no issue with that. Those are moral issues that should be of importance to people of the faith, but the agenda should be much, much broader.

I’m looking for the day when Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Joyce Meyer, James Dobson, Tony Perkins, James Kennedy, Rod Parsley, ” Patriot Pastors” and Rick Warren will sit at the same table as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Cynthia Hale, Eddie L. Long, James Meek, Fred Price, Emmanuel Cleaver and Floyd Flake to establish a call to arms on racism, AIDS, police brutality, a national health care policy, our sorry education system.

If they all say they love and worship one God, one Jesus, let’s see them rally their members behind one agenda.

I stand here today not as a Republican or a liberal. And don’t bother calling me a Democrat or a conservative. I am a man,­ an African-American man ­who has professed that Jesus Christ is Lord, and that’s to whom I bow down.

If you concur, it’s time to stop allowing a chosen few to speak for the masses. Quit letting them define the agenda.

So put on the full armor of God because we have work to do.