The sins of different subcultures and the color of repentance.

September 29th, 2025.

Introduction.

Last week, something of a discussion broke out in response to a statement from Brian Savay

about how blacks could join his church, of course, but in order

to be welcome, they would need to repudiate black culture, a culture filled with all sorts

of dysfunction. Now, when I say discussion broke out, I mean something more akin to dogpiling,

and so it is not my intention to interact too closely with Brian's statement. The dog pile is now

of a sufficient size. From Ogden's subsequent responses

and clarifications, it is clear that they believed that some level of explanatory damage control

was necessary, and I'm glad that they saw the need to address it. I don't want to join the dog pile,

but I do want to address some of the larger issues that were dislodged as a result of the fracas,

because it is very clear

to me that American culture is screwed up on ethnicity. Red and yellow, black and white, we are all

screwed up. What I want to do here is zoom out just a bit and talk about the nature of cultures

and subcultures and why it is important for us to be very careful as we talk about them, and even

more careful as we define them.

The points I want to make here touch on the original sentiment, as expressed by Brian,

but the main things I want to chase are things that I saw and heard in the general melee that followed his initial statement.

Brian's target was legitimate, but he really shouldn't have used the phrase black culture

as the way to describe the cluster of sins he was aiming at.

And so a strong reaction against the perceived slam was also called for, although we could

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