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How Prayer Kept Jasper, TX from Disaster: Racism in America Alive and Well
How Prayer Kept Jasper TX from Disaster Racism in America Alive and Well Author:Johnny Baker Race is an issue that continues to be in the news. Starting the Presidential race to CNN's Black in America program that will air in July 2008. Yes, America the home of the free and the brave has a race problem. One chapter of this book deals with the issue of being black in Jasper, Texas. We have a race problem and the dragging of James Byrd Jr... more ». of Jasper, TX will end all our doubts. This book will open your eyes and hopefully it will touch your heart. This issue is sometimes covered. The book deals with a town on the edge of a race war, brewing from a burtal murder of a black man walking home late at night. The people of Jasper,TX kept it together and called for prayer. The preachers prayed and taught forgiveness to ther congregations instead of revenge, guns and violence. This book will make you check yourself and see if you are racist. The stories are true and they will sometimes make you want to cry about the fact that some things are still going on in America the home of the free. Every man and woman in America should read this book to get an understanding on what really happened in Jasper, TX. It was brought out by God for us to see racism at it's worst. Read it and it will change you and the way you look at other races. All of the bibical quotes are taken from the Old and New Testaments of the King James Version of the Bible. All History was taken from years of teaching and recieving information that stuck with me. Over the years I have taken in more information that must be put in my next book.« less