2. Definition of Racism ….the ideology that humans are divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called “races". This ideology entails the belief that members of a race share a set of characteristic traits, abilities, or qualities, that traits of personality, intellect, morality, and other cultural behavioral characteristics are inherited.

3. Characteristics of Racism (Xenophobia) Promotes Injustice Promotes Hate Promotes Exclusion Promotes Oppression

4. Promotes Justice Deuteronomy 24:17 Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge. Exodus 23:9 “Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners in Egypt.

5. Promotes Compassion Exodus 22:21 “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.

6. Promotes Inclusion Leviticus 16:29 “This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work— whether native-born or a foreigner residing among you—

7. Promotes Provision Leviticus 19:10 Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God. Deut. 10:18 He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.

8. Deut. 14:28-29 At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns, so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the L ORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

9. Gives Himself Deut 31:12 Assemble the people— men, women and children, and the foreigners residing in your towns—so they can listen and learn to fear the L ORD your God and follow carefully all the words of this law.

10. Is God Racist? Racism is a reflection of your Culture not our Creator.