Emphasis Preaching Journal

Many of us know the feeling of being excluded or unwanted by another who plays favorites. It may have been a teacher who had "pets" among the students, but we were not one of them. Or perhaps it was an employer who favored certain people who treated him or her with deference. Racial and ethnic prejudice is, in the final analysis, a form of playing favorites. The majority always seems to want to favor themselves over the minority.