1.0Serve Globally Bloghttps://blogs.covchurch.org/servegloballyrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="UdRM0ZWhtf"><a href="https://blogs.covchurch.org/serveglobally/2015/04/02/my-journey-toward-racial-righteousness/">My Journey toward Racial Righteousness</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://blogs.covchurch.org/serveglobally/2015/04/02/my-journey-toward-racial-righteousness/embed/#?secret=UdRM0ZWhtf" width="600" height="338" title="“My Journey toward Racial Righteousness” — Serve Globally Blog" data-secret="UdRM0ZWhtf" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://blogs.covchurch.org/serveglobally/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js /* ]]> */ </script> Written and used with permission by one of our missionaries in Asia.   My story begins my freshman year at William Taft High School in Chicago. My family had just immigrated to the United States from South Korea. My school was truly multicultural and multiracial at that time, for the late 80’s, but we still chose to segregate ourselves: whites with whites, blacks with blacks, Hispanics with Hispanics, Asians with Asians.  Since it was a public high school located in the Norwood Park neighborhood (on the northwest side of Chicago) the neighborhood was predominantly “white.”  But many black students came from the south side and some Hispanics and Asians (mostly Koreans) came from the east side. So since, most of the white kids lived in the same neighborhood they just walked home; but for the African-Americans, Hispanics and Asian students we all needed to take the same bus to Jefferson Park, a transferring bus station, so to get on another bus to get to our respective homes. As a Korean who just immigrated to the U.S., I didn’t know much about U.S. history nor did I speak English well.  Many black kids mistakenly thought that my friends and I were […]https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/Kiq-twDn0cuLr52cSMxsvlpRbzTSZA6OdGUJD6IPZBte96wzqLqWd2V05STkd8FrEJcPi2ESEjX1gpR8thqp9ypEeTfMTDIjnTQQZ7osi2XFguYN8ByJKlee1wP83nsL1Yh9t_6OdHbRTg=s0-d-e1-ft#http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m22/kernelofseed/Sankofa_2015-311_zpsbth57qh7.jpg