There are White Asians (Russia, Georgia, Central Asia), Pardo Asians (East Asia/Southeast Asia), and Black Asians (Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia); there are White Arabs, Pardo Arabs, and Black Arabs; there are White Hispanics, Pardo Hispanics, and Black Hispanics (Caribbean); there are White Africans, Pardo Africans, and Black Africans. There are White Natives, Pardo Natives, and Black Natives. Race is a color, not a geographical/cultural thing!

We have Africans, Arabs, Asians, Hispanics, and Natives that are Pardo Americans! And they are all of the same race color. Too bad many don’t see this because they have cultural blinders on, thinking they are separate people.

Just like we no longer have European American as a designation (or African American). Every Hispanic, Asian, Arab, Northern Africans, Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, Natives of Alaska and America have been systematically separated and designated an illogical geographical location so that they cannot form one large COLOR group (e.g., Tan Americans or Brown Americans). If they did, it would just expose the “hidden” majority of voters which is neither “White” nor “Black” but “Tan.” This hypothetical group would include parts of southern Europeans (e.g., Greeks, Italians, Spanish), Near East, Arabs, Lebanese, North and East Africans, all the others mentioned above.

The “Whites” appropriate the light skinned people of these groups as their own in the government Census, why shouldn’t the “Tans” do likewise? Just comes to show the color system is absurd and used to benefit “White” group and marginalize all potential threat (whether consciously or not). Most likely consciously.

There’s a short article on wikipedia called “Tan Americans” which will probably be taken down due to the controversial nature of proposing another racial color. Check it out while you still can. God bless.

If this was a group of Black Christian American’s…….or Hispanic Christian American’s…..or any other race where a person could immediately identify the demographic (if that were their focus)………then apparently you wouldn’t have any trouble?

Your article is not about anything but reverse-racism and even racism toward another demographic (Asian Americans). What’s the point? Other than to point out that a bunch of Christian’s, who happen to be white, and ‘think white’ are somehow offending your individual sensitivities toward race and naturally occurring (not forced, not sought after because you say so) segregation?

What we don’t need in this country is one more person who wants to take something that’s good, and make it bad. If you want to make sure that things represent a better blending of the Christian population, then by all means do something about it by organizing your own gathering and ensuring by all means possible that we have the proper percentage of each demographic. But, don’t pick on one or two groups out of billions of American’s (who are trying to do something good here mind you)…..to further the hate or anger that you clearly express………revised or not.

I pray no believer (who might be weaker in faith than you), read this and stumbled in thought… thinking that now race and denomination matters. Because it doesn’t.

And now, we’re worried about skin color? Are these the thoughts of a believer?
The early fellowship consisted mainly of Jews and (Greek) Gentiles – I don’t think there were many Asian folk there back then. You ready to think the same things about the first ministries?
I admire your desire for the an Asian revival, and being an Asian myself, I actually thank you for your sentiments. But, that’s why Christ calls us to disciple others In hopes that these racial and language barriers can be broken by the powers of God – not built in the hands of men. And slandering a brother’s name is not the way to start that.

did want to add a couple of things to the discussion:

- One demonstration of Christ’s love is in seeking to first to understand one another before we ourselves are understood, no? I find that hard to do. Even as I clicked on the reply button all I could think about was how best to make myself understood. A challenge for all of us I think.

- There was a group that used to exist at my college just for white people. The point, however, was not exclusivity. The point was to talk about their whiteness, especially to keep themselves aware that being white (or black, or brown, etc) is not equal to being “normal” or “American”.

This group was also a forum to explore the different advantages they got from their whiteness. I can’t remember exactly which book/article prompted them to do this, but it had something to do with the idea that everybody carries an invisible bag with them. Each of us get to put certain things in there depending on our upbringing, and, yes, some of those things we get have a large correlation to our race.

Speaking for myself, I don’t want white people to feel guilty. I just want to know that they know that they’re just as abnormal as I am, it’s just that there’s more of them (at least in this country). I want first and foremost for all of us to look in the mirror and know, “I’m beloved by God and I’m His child through the blood of Jesus Christ.” But second, or third, or at least at some point as they’re looking at the mirror, I hope that the thought crosses everyone of my white brothers’ and sisters’ minds that, in this country at least, the color of their skin has changed their lives, just as my skin color and facial features have changed mine.