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Before she and her husband adopted a son and daughter from Ethiopia, popular evangelical blogger Jen Hatmaker said she had a different view about race in America.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cA couple years ago, I would\u2019ve said we\u2019re moving to a post-racial society because I was so under-exposed to people of color and the issues they deal with on a daily basis,\u201d said the white Christian author, whose home renovation to make space for their growing family of seven was recently featured on HGTV.<\/span><\/div>\n
As evangelicals have turned their attention toward adoption in the past decade, families like the Hatmakers are grappling with race relations in a profoundly personal way, especially as national news spotlights racial tension in New York; Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere.<\/span><\/div>\n
And evangelicals aren\u2019t alone: A new Gallup poll found that 13 percent of Americans believe racism is the country\u2019s most important problem, the highest figure since the 1992 verdict in the Rodney King case sparked riots in Los Angeles.<\/span><\/div>\n
And, as Gallup noted: \u201cAfter barely registering with Americans as the top problem for two decades, race relations now matches the economy in Americans\u2019 mentions of the country\u2019s top problem, and is just slightly behind government (15 percent).\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
That same Gallup poll also found that nonwhites are more than twice as likely as whites to call race relations or racism the country\u2019s most important problem.<\/span><\/div>\n
As the Hatmakers\u2019 son Ben, 11, creeps closer to the ages of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown \u2014 unarmed black teenagers whose deaths have put race into a national conversation \u2014 the family talks about race more frequently. Her son learned about America\u2019s racial history in public school during Black History Month in February.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cEvery time we talk about it, there are tears, there\u2019s confusion,\u201d said Hatmaker, who said her son lives in a \u201cno man\u2019s land\u201d because he\u2019s black but not necessarily African-American. \u201cHe didn\u2019t understand he was coming into a culture with a racial bias.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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