Burt,
Where does the word “exclusive” come up? You have added that just as other conservative partisans have misinterpreted Trinity United Church of Christ’s tenets to somehow be about bussing or other completely unrelated baloney.
As for being “committed” to Africa — the continent has significant areas of deep, persistent poverty and disease. Many other Christian congregations also focus their charity on the continent. Indeed, Pres. Bush even promised a hefty chunk of aid to the continent to combat disease, etc.
The “Afrocentrism” listed in the church’s tenets is simply an acknowledgement of the heritage of the majority of its congregants. If you are truly fine with this church’s members celebrating their heritage than you’ve lost your own argument.
Your claim (it is your claim, not a claim made by the Trinity congregation) of some sort of “exclusivity” is bogus in light of the facts, not the least of which is that white folks also worship at that very same church and a great many white congregations within the UCC support Trinity UCC in opposing what the smears such as your false labels of “creepy” and “race-obsessed.”
Unfortunately for you, the fact you can’t bother to actually look into the history of “Afrocentrism” as it relates to Christianity says much, much more about your own obsession with “race”.
