Blood Done Sign My Name Page #3

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your new pastor here at

Oxford Methodist Church.

I want to

thank all of you

who welcomed

my wife Martha

and our four children,

Vern, Tim,

Boo, and Julie,

with such open arms

and made us feel

so welcome this week.

Now, let us pray.

Father,

we live in difficult times

that challenge our faith

in new and often

difficult circumstance.

Grant us the power to

choose right from wrong,

and the strength

to love all people

of all races, because

in the eyes of God,

we are all equal.

ln Your holy name

we pray. Amen.

(congregation)

Amen.

[knock on door]

Mrs. Alwin,

I'm Reverend Tyson.

I heard you

on the radio.

You have a

beautiful voice.

Well, thank you, ma'am.

'Course, I don't usually trust

preachers with beautiful voices.

They tend to think too

highly of themselves.

But then I heard your

sermon about the Negroes,

and I changed my mind.

I thought this

is either a man

with a total disregard for his career,

or else he's one of the

bravest preachers I ever heard.

Either way, he wasn't

all full of himself.

(Vernon)

Well, I'm not sure

my wife would completely

agree with you on that.

(chuckles) She must be a good woman.

She is.

Children?

Two boys,

two girls.

Good.

You know, Reverend, l've

been a member of that church

for 87 years,

and l've seen

20, 22 pastors

stand in that pulpit,

some good, some

not so good.

But they all fell

into two groups.

They were either priests,

or they were prophets.

The priests told us the comforting

things we wanted to hear.

The prophets

challenged us

with the difficult

things we needed to hear.

Which one

are you?

I try to be a little bit of both.

Oh, Reverend,

in these times, I think you're

going to find it very hard

to be both.

[cheerful indistinct chatter]

[soul music]

a [male voice

sings indistinct] a

Man, we need to put up a

basketball hoop out back.

What for? Why don't you

just go to the park and play?

[men laugh]

What's so funny?

They took down

all the rims.

What you mean, took down the

rims? What are you talking about?

Rims, man. The town

took down the rims

to keep us out of

their neighborhood.

Oh, man, don't

look like that.

You know how stuff

changes here.

One step forward,

two steps back.

Name one black person

working a shop downtown.

Unless they got a broom in their hands.

They got one brother

on the police force.

He been

there four years

and still ain't allowed

to arrest any white folks.

So what y'all gonna

do about that?

Sh*t. People been pushing

change downtown for years.

Ain't nothing

gonna happen.

Yeah. I agree

with you, Eddie.

Ain't nothing

gonna happen...

unless you make

it happen.

(male voice) No one's saying

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