It has become common to claim that strong affirmations of ethnic identity are improper for Christians. Some white Christians have even begun to claim that they do not see color. This is rooted in a strange appropriation of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. In that message King speaks of his vision of Black kids and white kids playing together and people being judged, not by “the color of their skin,” but the “content of their character.”21 King’s point was never that ethnicity and culture are irrelevant, but that they should not be the cause of discrimination. King often called
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