From what I can see, there seems to be no facet of human life that the current issue of racism has not touched. This includes Christian music, of which gospel music is a part. Right among our ranks – between churches, as well as among the commercial music industry Christian streams – there are many expressions of unhappiness (to say the least) between Black and White Christians, as people open up on social media and Zoom discussion groups.
It was the 1960s when Dr Martin Luther King Jr said: “It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning.” The specific stories are different, but the principle factors are largely the same here in the UK too. Sixty years on, we have seen some changes – but not nearly enough. Truth is, matters have gotten to a point where we must talk and act more transparently and honestly, so that our voice, for the sake of CHRIST, does not have an indistinct and consequently confused sound (1 Corinthians 14:10, which follows the chapter on LOVE). One surety is that there is nothing wrong with ‘the music’ per se, but there is something wrong with the systems that carry the music, and the people who operate (or conversely do not operate) those systems fairly.
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Harrison Okafor
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Judith is a believer, a lover of Christ and a Gospel freak person. A passionate gospel blogger and press writer. I work with GospelHitsNaija.net Media, no 1 Gospel music platform.
