COLUMBUS –More and more, society is judging and separating individuals based by skin color. It’s okay, we are all striving toward “diversity” and “inclusion,” or so we are told.
Recently the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) scheduled separate COVID-19 Vaccination Townhalls for African-American Ohioans, Hispanic-Latino Ohioans, Asian-American & Pacific Islander Ohioans. There is even a town hall for rural Ohioans. The state agency is receiving flak and one international speaker and author believes constantly classifying people by their skin color is dangerous.
In a guest column with the Christian Post, Ryan Bomberger comments that under the guise of “inclusion,” both government and corporations alike are actually marketing and expanding racism.
“The racial messaging is loud and clear: if you are not the right hue, there is obviously something wrong with you. These reminders are relentless. From Hollywood babble to pandering politicians to Big Tech Tyrants to ‘Institutions of Higher Mis-learning,’ we are barraged by an unending stream of color-conscious craziness that demands society sees hue before it sees you.”
Bomberger believes that the Black Lives Matter movement successfully utilized guilt through the Critical Race Theory in its victim-evangelism messaging to influence corporations and rake in millions of dollars.
“The racial messaging is loud and clear: if you’re not the right hue, there is obviously something wrong with you. These reminders are relentless. From Hollywood babble to pandering politicians to Big Tech Tyrants to Institutions of Higher Mis-learning, we are barraged by an unending stream of color-conscious craziness that demands society sees hue before it sees you.”
Ryan Bomberger, Co-FOunder of the Radiance Foundation
This month Apple turned up the volume on its social justice rhetoric with its Racial Equity and Justice Initiative and its “Black Unity” branded watch. Bomberger wonders aloud why not a “Unity” collection of watches that celebrate us all?
“At every turn we’re being commanded to check our color, check our privilege, check our to-do-lists of guilt-oriented tasks. Corporate America has taken genuflection to a whole new low. Remember when Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy got on his knees and started shining hip-hop artist Lecrae’s shoes in a seriously cringey display of reconciliation-gone-wrong? Cathy told other white people to do the same. If you ever try to shine my shoes, I will kick you. This does not erase racism, it does not change the past. This just makes someone feel really uncomfortable.”
Bomberger does not mince words when referencing educational institutions that misinform the next generation by revising history to suit a political agenda.
The Civil Rights Act of 1871 (aka the Ku Klux Klan Act) was a piece of legislation that addressed the horrific KKK violence that terrorized black Americans and their white allies. Zero Democrats in the House and Senate voted for the bill. A group of Republican African-American Congressman had a profound take on the legislation which allowed pardons for former Confederates.
“These trailblazer legislators were Senator Hiram Revels and Representatives Robert Elliott, Robert De Large, Benjamin Turner and Joseph Rainey — all born into slavery. They proclaimed: ‘We have open and frank hearts toward those who were our oppressors and taskmasters. We foster no enmity now, and we desire to foster none for their act in the past to us, nor to the Government we love so well.”
The Emmy-Award-winning creative professional believes the nation needs more healthy dialogue around historic accounts like these, and more unity around the fact there is only one human race. Instead of false revisionist history, Bomberger believes conversations should center around forgiveness by God and redemption as demonstrated by these trailblazing legislators.
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“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.” Acts 10:34-35
