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It was a normal day. I was going about my business. I had just wrapped up sermon prep at my favorite coffeehouse, and I was in my Jeep at a busy intersection. I had the windows rolled down, enjoying the sixty-five-degree, sunny North Carolina day, when a big truck with three White guys drove past. As they sped past me, I heard them yell, "N-! "
Typically, I would have prayed for these young men, asking Jesus to heal their hateful hearts. But this time, something in me snapped. I'm not sure if it was hated-filled emails calling me a race baiter that had gotten the best of me or if it was watching neo-Nazis march through Charlottesville, Virginia. Maybe it was thinking about the Mother Emanuel shooting in which a White supremacist killed nine Black people after they had invited him into their Bible study. Whatever it was, before I knew it, I floored it. I found myself darting through traffic like a NASCAR driver chasing these guys. After about two miles, I pulled up beside them at a stoplight. I yelled, "What did you say? "