[Neurons] 2021 Neurons #17 WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2021 Neurons #17 

April 17, 2021

 

I SUPPOSE YOU DIDN'T KNOW

 

A funny thing happened on the way to writing about the so-called "race"
problem in the US, I had a number of people write to tell me that I "know
nothing of what I'm writing about."  Several told me to "shut up" and a
couple said they could not stand to read anything else from me- which
actually sounds like a lot of intolerant bias.  Whatever happened to the
critical thinking ability to read and think about things that you might
disagree with?

 

Anyway, I wrote back to a couple of them and told them a little of my
history and they said they never knew that, never had a clue.  One suggested
that I ought to communicate it.  So here goes.  A long time before I found
NLP and returned to school to get my doctorate in psychology, I went off to
study the Bible.

 

It was 1968 when I went off to Seminary.  I went south to Memphis Tennessee
and I just so happened to arrive there just after Martin Luther King Jr. was
shoot.  Talk about a city in turmoil!  There were road blocks in many places
and we were stopped and searched many times.  I say we because my class was
25 percent black and so I frequently travel in and out of the city with my
fellow students.  Numerous times I rode in a car where half of us were white
and half were black.  Coming from the north (Indiana) I didn't think
anything about it, we were all classmates, but the police and others in
Memphis treated it like it was a crime.

 

In my second year, I took an assignment with a church in Mississippi on
Sundays.  That was my first experienced of "the deep south" in those days
and that's where I encountered white prejudice against black people.   Once
I invited a black friend with me to Baldwyn but he had been in the deep
south and he would not go.  Naively I told people at the church that Sunday
that my black friend was hesitant about coming with me and "I'm sure all of
you would make him feel at home."  Flabbergasted doesn't even begin to
describe the shock I got.  So being naive, unsophisticated, and
confrontational, I began preaching on "race relationships!"  I quoted the
passage over and over: "In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor
free, male nor female, for all are one in Christ" (Galatians 3:28).  After
all, that was theologically- we are all equals and all of us are equally
made in God's image and likeness.

 

After I graduated I took a church in the Louisville Ky area and upon
discovering there was a small black church of the same denomination, I began
urging that we combine to create an integrated church.  And that's exactly
what we did in 1972-3.  I visited and broke bread in nearly every single
home of our black brethren, and they in my home.  A few years later I joined
the NAACP and participated in a protest in Caruthersville Missouri (1977).
After than I worked with an inner city black church in St. Louis, a church
which was 10% white and 90% black.  I worked as youth minister at that time
focusing on the young black kids.

 

 

 

 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Neuro-Semantics

P.O. Box 8

Clifton CO. 81520 USA

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