Re:Verse passage – Nehemiah 10:28-30 (day two)
“…we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.”
When African-American students gather to proclaim certain areas as Black spaces, or when marginalized groups of any ethnicity make attempts to recover and reclaim heritage by emphasizing achievements or accomplishments in music or other fields, it’s not uncommon to hear complaints of “reverse discrimination” or bigotry. When one’s ethnicity does not feel minimized or diminished for most of one’s life, it’s hard to imagine how deep the fears of disappearing really go. How much more so here in this passage when a people – who have a heritage of God’s activity in their midst through generations and who sense that they have been on the brink of perishing after their neglect of the scriptures – see a way back from despair? Racist? Or revived?
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