I'm not criticising Rev. Peterson's work at all ... well, hardly at all. I think he does a great job of raising issues that are important for people of all races.
However, it seems like there's a blind spot about Martin Luther King. It is right to praise his civil rights leadership and vision for positive race relations. On the other hand, when family disintegration is such a tremendous problem in the black community, I think that ignoring Rev. King's bad example in this area is spiritually dangerous.
It implies that it doesn't matter how a man conducts his family life, if he's an achiever in his professional life ... and that's not the message Rev. Peterson is known for!
Tax-chick, i understand your point and purhaps that is the subject for another post, however, what you are doing is exactly what blacks do when Jesse criticises them...and that is what he is saying in his title..."Little White Excuses".
I don't mean to be hard on you, I've done the very same thing myself, maybe I didn't say it out loud, but inside I hear that little voice when someone criticizes me..."What about men?, What about this... What about her?" He is trying to toughen us up and face our weaknesses and move on...