I enjoyed Mr. Wallace's interview about his journey to Orthodoxy. I am black and have my own extensive spiritual search for Orthodoxy. The one thing I am in disagreement with him is his statement that Protestant Churches should apologize for slavery as Pope John Paul II had done for the Catholics. I do not demean what the former pope did, but such apologies have no impact on improving race relations and may actually turn back progress by constantly bringing up a collective guilt that whites should assume. America is polarized by different racial views. Most people, no matter the race, do not want to engage in honest discussion on race relations today. As far as "apologizing", every people on earth would have to give "apologies" since anyone would be hard pressed to find a people who did not enslave another at some point in history. As for how do blacks find their niche musically in Orthodoxy, I believe Orthodoxy goes across all cultural boundaries as seen from the church stretching from Egypt and Persia to the British Isles. Local churches adapted Orthodox chant to their culture. For example, the Russians developed their own chant which is not Middle Eastern over much time. Mozarabic chant which sounds very eastern was used in the ancient Spanish church before the Latin mass was imposed. I suppose musically there is a big divide between Orthodox chant and black gospel. But, individuals cannot fit into musical stereotypes. I claim many diverse types of music as my own--from liturgical to certain gospel to some of the "white folks" Christian rock. Very few blacks will approach Orthodoxy because they see it as a "white" church. Knowledge of history can change that. I'd like to remind the Muslims who say Christianity is the "white man's religion" that MORE Africans were sold into slavery by Muslims before Europeans came to Africa.