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Some have asked on FB how I could put up a picture of Ms. Harris' inauguration and say, "A beautiful sight for so many reasons."
It is beautiful if you ever watched television and wondered why no one on the screen looked like you.
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It is beautiful if you ever watched television and wondered why no one on the screen looked like you.
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It is beautiful if you ever wished you had wavy blond hair like those stars on TV instead of your own ugly straight black hair.
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It is beautiful if you ever heard racial slurs, or if you heard your older sister absorb them too.
It is beautiful if you ever watched your older sister put those racists in their place.
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It is beautiful if you ever watched your older sister put those racists in their place.
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It is beautiful if you ever heard your 5th grade Sunday school teacher talk about shooting "some Jap in a tree."
Your Sunday school teacher.
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Your Sunday school teacher.
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It is beautiful if your Christian friends in high school gave you a Spanish nickname because someone thought you were Mexican.
It is beautiful if your Christian friends in another high school gave you a Japanese nickname, even though you're not.
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It is beautiful if your Christian friends in another high school gave you a Japanese nickname, even though you're not.
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It is beautiful if you ever led Neighborhood Bible Time in rural Georgia and were told you look like Jackie Chan.
Seriously. Jackie Chan.
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Seriously. Jackie Chan.
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It is beautiful if your non-Christian friends from elementary and junior high school would have never made those mistakes.
And you wondered why your Christian friends don't get it.
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And you wondered why your Christian friends don't get it.
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It is beautiful if you ever were the token minority, the model minority, the "proof we're not racists."
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It is beautiful if your first roommate at your Christian college predicted you'd be on a school promo poster ("because, well, look at you!") and watch it come true.
Before freshman year ended.
Literally a poster child.
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Before freshman year ended.
Literally a poster child.
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It is beautiful if you ever went to a Christian college and were told you had to choose either white girls or Asian girls—but not Black or Latina, and the decision was irrevocable—before you could start dating anyone.
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It is beautiful if others at your college railed against this racist policy on your behalf, but you were too naive or too compliant or too blind to see it until much later.
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It is beautiful if you ever had to apologize to your mom for rejecting her heritage for most of the first 35 years of your life.
My middle name, by the way, is Choe.
Not C.
Choe.
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My middle name, by the way, is Choe.
Not C.
Choe.
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It is beautiful if you ever defaulted to making jokes about your mixed racial background because it was easier to get people laughing about it than to deal with the pain of never fitting in, of never belonging.
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It is beautiful if you ever pastored a richly diverse congregation with Black Hillary voters and Latino Trump voters, and saw that you could disagree on policy and still find beauty in the other person's perspective and friendship in the other person's eyes.
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It is beautiful if you ever listened to women, friends, share their #MeToo 
stories and rejoiced that such darkness was finally being brought to light, that women forced the issue into the open, that justice is finally being served against predatory men.
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stories and rejoiced that such darkness was finally being brought to light, that women forced the issue into the open, that justice is finally being served against predatory men.15/
It is beautiful if you have female Black and brown friends who today believe what once sounded only like empty rhetoric: "you really can be anything."
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It is beautiful if you believe that human beings were created in the image of God, bringing God's restorative presence and mediating God's loving rule to the world around us.
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It is beautiful if you believe the Most High stepped into the world we've shattered by our sin, instead of drawing back, in order to redeem and restore it through the atoning work of Jesus and the re-creative work of his Spirit.
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It is beautiful if you can spot signs of his justice rolling down like waters and his righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
No, not in full force yet.
But every sign of his restorative work deserves celebration.
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No, not in full force yet.
But every sign of his restorative work deserves celebration.
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It is beautiful if you have four daughters who are bright and strong and creative and godly and vocal, and you want every seat open and every opportunity available for them to exercise their gifts for the good of the world.
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It is beautiful if your wife is the strongest person you know, the person you most trust, the one whose constancy and love keeps you from going to the dark side.
And you would nominate her to lead anything in the world. Because she'd kick ass.
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And you would nominate her to lead anything in the world. Because she'd kick ass.
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So yes. It is beautiful for many reasons.
Thanks for asking.
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Thanks for asking.
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