Before I started seminary, I met up with some graduating Korean American seminarians to hear about their experience.
I heard several of them share the racist things their White classmates, future ministers of the gospel, had said to them on various occasions on campus.
I heard several of them share the racist things their White classmates, future ministers of the gospel, had said to them on various occasions on campus.
Things including making fun of the shape of their eyes, racial jokes, and other deeply insensitive comments and assumptions regarding their ability to speak English. I heard about how they had visited nearby White Reformed churches and had had awful experiences and were often
just invisible.
I didn't think anything of it at the time because I had convinced myself that I was Reformed enough to be invincible of racism. I was dead wrong, and I keep thinking about these conversations I had with these Korean American brothers, especially as the anti-Asian
I didn't think anything of it at the time because I had convinced myself that I was Reformed enough to be invincible of racism. I was dead wrong, and I keep thinking about these conversations I had with these Korean American brothers, especially as the anti-Asian
racism increases in our nation.
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