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    RACE: The Elephant in America's Living Room
    RACE: The Elephant in America's Living Room
    RACE: The Elephant in America's Living Room
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    RACE: The Elephant in America's Living Room

    By David Evans

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    I am white, but I have been going to a black church for the last twenty-one years. I have also continued to go to my original white church. Going back and forth between these two very different churches has been an amazing experience, and I have had some very big surprises along the way. But these surprises have to do with things most people are not at all aware of. That's why I had to write about them in this book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Evans
    Release dateSep 22, 2014
    ISBN9781310088353
    RACE: The Elephant in America's Living Room
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    David Evans

    David Evans is author of several books and other publications and productions on blues music and has received two Grammy Awards for Best Album Notes. He is also a 2023 inductee into the Blues Hall of Fame in the category of Individuals—Business, Production, Media, and Academic. His musical performance career has taken him to twenty-three countries and resulted in six CDs. Evans taught at California State University, Fullerton, and the University of Memphis, where he retired as professor of music emeritus.

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      RACE - David Evans

      RACE:

      The Elephant in America’s Living Room

      Copyright 2014 David Evans

      Published by David Evans at Smashwords

      All rights reserved. No part of the publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by means electronic, mechanical or by photocopying, recording or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief quotation from a review, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.

      Contents

      Chapter One: The Question White People Always Ask Me

      Chapter Two: Race: The Elephant in America’s Living Room

      Chapter Three: What if Obama were White?

      Chapter Four: Have You Talked About Slavery Lately?

      Chapter Five: How Do You Define Racism?

      Chapter Six: An American Tithe for Racial Justice

      A Word from the Author

      CHAPTER ONE

      The Question White People Always Ask Me

      I am white, but for the last twenty years I’ve been going to an African American church. I’ve also continued to go frequently to my original white church. Because the service schedules are different, there are many Sundays I’ve gone to both. And in the twenty years I’ve been going to the black church, I’ve probably averaged at least one attendance a week. (For ten years I sang in the Gospel choir.)

      My original impetus for going to the black church was the crisis and social unrest stemming from the Rodney King episode. I live in Los Angeles, so the reactions to the beating and the subsequent acquittal were particularly intense. In the midst of all this turmoil I felt a need to do something. We’re either part of the problem or we’re part of the solution. I wanted to be part of the solution. But what could I possibly do? All I had ever done before that was write, and that was mostly comedy (I was a writer for The Monkees, among other things).

      A (white) woman pastor I knew offered to introduce me to a black pastor she knew in

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