Christian rapper Lecrae believes that Christians should learn how to embrace people who have different cultural backgrounds and stop criticising things they are not even familiar with to be able to develop a deeper and more meaningful relationship with people.
"America is full of different cultures, yet it baffles me when people with cultural differences, who rarely interact with each other on deep levels, have so much commentary on the others' cultural perspective," he wrote on his Facebook page.
He said he does not have any Moroccan friends, and he could not imagine trying to understand their cultural outlook on the world without first establishing a meaningful relationship with them. As for Native Americans, Lecrae shared that he only managed to gain insight on their rich culture after he spent several months traveling in their lands, making friends with them, and hearing about their perspectives.
"Division is to be expected when people aren't developing meaningful relationships with others outside their culture," he said. "Everyone who lives in America (or is Christian for that matter) does not see everything the same. But if you find yourself upset at someone's outlook...that may need to be the very person you build a relationship with."
Earlier, when Dylann Roof shot nine black people as they were attending services at the Emanuel AME Church, Lecrae wrote an opinion piece about it in Billboard, saying that the church needs to address the issue of growing racial tension.
He added that people need not be divided based on the colour of their skin, despite what history has told people. The real enemy, according to the rapper, is people's distorted views and prejudice against one another. "There is a great antagonist, and it does not have black or white skin," he said. "It is the brokenness of humanity. May a love that miraculously mends our brokenness be the protagonist."
