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Either “the black community” exists or it doesn’t. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. 
If it exists, then it has unique issues that need addressing with kindness and compassion in an accurately informed context of historical literacy, social awareness, and cultural understanding from a position of biblical authority and sufficiency...
...not historical ignorance, hypocritical inconsistency, cultural and statistical generalisations, perpetuation of racist tropes, and lack of neighbour-love, awareness, and self-control.
On the other hand, if no ethnically defined community (including the black community) exists, then there can be no more talk about, for example, “black mothers”, “the black abortion rate”, “black-on-black crime”, “black fatherlessness” and so forth.
Some of the ideas and attitudes from certain corners of evangelicalism that I have been observing are not, despite their academic bluster and pious pretensions, “Reformed” but deformed, and have less in common with the spirit of London 1689 and more with Memphis 1968.
Let us all heed the words of the Apostle Paul to the beautifully diverse but potentially divided gathering of Christ-following Jews and Gentiles in the city of Rome: “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind” Romans 12:2.
