Creflo Dollar's Transracial Adoption
I checked my stats recently, and noticed a search for "creflo dollar adopt white boy" resulting in a click-through to my my short post about the prosperity gospel. It confused me as much as the "racist Doraemon" search earlier this year. So I went ahead and ran the search in Google to see if Creflo Dollar has, in fact, adopted a white boy. Yep!
Which Master Do You Follow? The Father of the 'Prosperity Gospel' Talks About Fatherhood
By Angela Bronner, AOL Black Voices,Posted: 2006-06-27 17:04:40
Why did you choose to have a family before marriage and why adopt white children when there are so many black children languishing in foster care?
I asked the same question -- it was God's solution for my racist attitude (laughs). I grew up in a household where we had a problem with white folks. And when the spirit of God told me to [adopt], he said I'm going to resolve some of your past issues and at the same time, use it as an example to really break the spirit of racism; not only in your life, but in the lives of other people. I've had an opportunity since then to be able to teach a lot of people for how to overcome a spirit of racism, which is really a spirit of division. But then later on, we went ahead and adopted a black kid too. Now the boys that I've adopted are planning to adopt one kid themselves, because of what happened to them.
That was a piece of Creflo Dollar trivia I did not know. I did know that his given name is actually Creflo Dollar, and his father was also named Creflo Dollar, although the father held a much more honest profession than his televangelist son.
I don't want to analyze his stated reasons for adoption, although they're open to criticism on several fronts. I'll just note that for non-white adoptive parents, intraracial adoption can be as politically charged as transracial adoption.
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3 comments:
I dont think his adopting a white boy had any effect ither way. I have a problem with how he chooses to present his self to the world. I think if Jesus wanted to have his pastors all bling-blinged then Jesus would have said this. Jesus was about being moderate and not flashy. He was about walikng or riding in on a donky. In todays terms that would mean driving Dodge or at best a Honda not a fleet of limo's and mutiple privite jet costing in the tens of thousands to operate a day with the fuel and up keep and all. I always thought his name meant "Creat-a-flow of dollars and that his wife's name which is Taffie Dollars meant "Taxfree Dollar" Kind of "Makes me wanna holler and throw up both my hands" as the late great Marvin Gaye put it.
Meeko Israel
I think that people who would never actually ever adopt are sadly the undisputed critics of adopting. First adopt and then comment. It is obvious for your communication that you haven't adopted anybody.
Reading some of this commentary makes me realise that they are many people out there who do not study their Bibles well enough: Meeko Israel said "Jesus was about being moderate and flashy"...who told you that?! Soliders drew lots for his garments - coz they were of great value! Jesus had a Treasurer - that can roughly translate to a Personal Private Banker in today's speak!! Open your eyes and read! I could go on and on, but the problem is actually a systemic view of God's people as poor and preaching the gospel of our Lord from begging bowls and pity driven purses. Despite the Bible decalring quite clearly that "Jesus became poor so that through his poverty, we might become rich" - this was not talking about 'spiritually poor' (as there is no such scripture telling us Jesus ever became spiritually poor!) - this is wealth on this earth! Too many people have grown so comfortable seeing the Christians as poor and beggarly. There was a spiritual significance to the donkey that Jesus rode - not your Honda/Dodge interpretation. Such comments are ill-informed and can only highlight ignorance gone on a rampage.
You speak so coarsely and freely about Ministers of the Gospel Of Christ - I hope you know what the Bible says about that, but somehow I know that you don't.
i personally have no problems with transracial adoption... 1 reason is that i know creflos grandson...
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