Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
WHAT in the world is the famous South Korean boy band BTS doing in the White House press room talking to the world media and standing behind White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, the first openly gay, Black woman to hold the job? These young people and remarkably, a woman were telling the world that racial discrimination and hatred directed against American Asian people is morally wrong, a violation of human rights, and that respect and love for the human dignity and each other is the greatest good.
In that one presentation repeated thousands of times around the world, a fantastic atheistic group of boys have reached more people with a powerful message on human dignity than I have in 50 years of missionary endeavor. If only I had pursued my rock band ambitions as a teenager, I might have had more impact.
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