HUH ! ???

  Makeda Pennycooke                        

Black pastor asks 'only whites' to greet church visitors                 

According to Makeda Pennycooke, pastor of Freedom House Church, fall is the busiest time of the year for her church and she expects a number of new faces to appear in her congregation every Sunday. But her ideas about how to attract those visitors have left the regulars feeling angry and discriminated against. Pennycooke, who is black, sent out an email to the members of the church in Charlotte, N.C., asking that only white people volunteer to greet those newcomers. "First impressions matter," she wrote, according to WBTV. "So we would ask that only white people be on the front doors."

That sound you just heard was the congregations' collective jaws dropping. "I was floored," longtime member Carmen Thomas said. "You can put a white face all over the front door, but when you come through those doors … you're going to see people of color." Pennycooke has since apologized. [READ FULL STORY]