I learned a new word this week from one of my African American sisters – “CAUdacity” which is an apparent colloquialism to describe arrogant white people.

As our world continues to race headlong to the rejection of Biblical values (so-called “same-sex marriage”, transgender surgery, abortion on demand up to and including four weeks after birth, the “perinatal period”), the race drama in the United States continues unabated.

A recent rant on social media by the head of a diversity, equity, and inclusion officer at a major federal agency said she was “exhausted at these white folx (sic) in PD [professional development] sessions.” This was an apparent response to a woman who stated that “black people can be racist too.” This chief noted that they “are not the majority… don’t have power.”

The United States can boast having had an African American President named Barack Obama and a Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff named Colin Powell (son of Jamaican immigrants). Ben Carson was formerly the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. These are powerful positions.

The obsession with race within corporate America and social media is a diversion and a distraction from what is really important and needed within our country – repentance and faith toward God. The Gospel of Christ and His life-changing message is the essential key to what can unite black, brown, and white. Meetings and demonstrations cannot transform the human heart – only Jesus Christ can do that.

We need to recall those renowned words of Dr. Martin Luther King, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”