Question about Racial Diversity in Leadership vs. Membership

01-22-2021, 08:36 AM

This is more of a rhetorical question, but given that the membership demographic of each locality in the U.S. currently consists of maybe 80-100% Asians, why is it that only 5/25 (20%) of the current co-workers are of Asian descent? How is this blatant underrepresentation of Asians in leadership simply accepted? I'm assuming it's because they do not want to be perceived as being a Chinese church (in order to attract more caucasians).....but I feel like they are very racist because the leadership demographics are so contradictory to the membership demographics. If they are indeed majority Asian, they should just own it. Why must they try to attract more whites rather than other races and ethnicities? Why does it matter, if people of all colors are indeed equally valuable in the eyes of God? Is this yet another reflection of white supremacist values in religion?

In terms of sexism (0/25 co-workers being women)...I'm not even going to go into that because just thinking about it makes me angry.

01-22-2021, 08:36 AM	#1
Unregistered Guest Posts: n/a	Question about Racial Diversity in Leadership vs. Membership This is more of a rhetorical question, but given that the membership demographic of each locality in the U.S. currently consists of maybe 80-100% Asians, why is it that only 5/25 (20%) of the current co-workers are of Asian descent? How is this blatant underrepresentation of Asians in leadership simply accepted? I'm assuming it's because they do not want to be perceived as being a Chinese church (in order to attract more caucasians).....but I feel like they are very racist because the leadership demographics are so contradictory to the membership demographics. If they are indeed majority Asian, they should just own it. Why must they try to attract more whites rather than other races and ethnicities? Why does it matter, if people of all colors are indeed equally valuable in the eyes of God? Is this yet another reflection of white supremacist values in religion? In terms of sexism (0/25 co-workers being women)...I'm not even going to go into that because just thinking about it makes me angry.