AACC President Raymond Chang Promotes Asian Christian Self-Segregation.

Raymond Chang Promotes Asian Christian Self-Segregation

Raymond Chang, president of the Evangeleftist organization Asian American Christian Collaborative, functions like his counterpart Jemar Tisby, president of The Witness Collective. Like Tisby, Chang regularly supports such leftist causes as the Black Lives Matter movement, gun control movement, and racial hierarchy politics. The AACC website’s recommended resources page is chock full of links, book recommendations, and podcasts that focus almost exclusively on race-baiting and racialization of the church, as if the organization’s only purpose is to promote racial and political division amongst Christians.

Apparently all the attention, funding, and conference speaker invitations that his black BLM-supporting activist counterparts have received due to the BLM movement have left Raymond chafed badly. He recently took to Twitter to tell Asians to segregate from organizations that don’t have Asians in positions of power.

This take is interesting for several reasons. If a conservative Caucasian Christian made the same statement but replaced “Asian American” with “White American”, 99% of Christians would call the statement racist, and rightly so. Raymond gets a pass from leftists and moderates because he plays the racial hierarchy grievance game.

Raymond takes pride in the ecumenical nature of his organization. He even recently boasted that an upcoming candidate pool for a senior leadership position in his organization contains “remarkable diversity”.

Despite the boast, AACC’s leadership team features a stunning lack of racial diversity. Apparently, BLM is just a slogan at the AACC, as it lacks actual black voices on its leadership team.

Not to be outdone by the AACC, Jemar Tisby’s Witness Foundation board has a similar level of monoethnicity that unsurprisingly includes only what Jamar would refer to as “Black Voices.”

In the secular social justice hierarchy, Asian Americans regularly face actual discrimination (not perception-based microaggressions) as a result of affirmative action in corporate and government hiring practices and higher education. Affirmative action has been championed by leftist “anti-racist” activists like Raymond Chang, even though affirmative action regularly disadvantages Asian Americans who would otherwise receive employment or educational opportunities based on hard-earned merit and skill.

Despite this, Raymond Chang believes that his fellow Asians must join forces with leftists and Black Americans and support affirmative action as a part of the “equity” movement.

Raymond later revealed his motive for stirring the pot and trying to get Asian Christians to abandon their current theological entanglements. He wants them to take their money and join him in building his Asian FUBU (for us by us) empire, platform, and influence.

What an ironic statement for someone who claims to be anti-racist and wants Asians to be platformed as conference speakers and ministry leaders. Antiracism for thee, but not for thee. The Gospel is very clear that all men, no matter what ethnos, are called to come to the foot of the cross on the same plane as everyone else. The scripture never describes the kind of divisions that men like Raymond Chang and Jemar Tisby are trying to make in the body of Christ.

Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Colossians 3:11-15