This song, that I loved 25 years ago, popped into my head today, and I thought of how fitting the message is today. Still. So I am seeing the video for the first time ever.
If you are just now getting here because of everything that is going on in our world today, consider listening to the whole entire album. 25 years old and it's still has not lost its value or its meaning.
This is pure gold. From 1996, Jesus Freak LP. It could have been from three days ago it's so relevant today. It's why I'm playing it today on October 8th 2024.
This song brought tears to my eyes as I look around and see so much hate over skin tone - realizing Jesus died for each of our sins, irrespective of ethnicity, gender, age or other differences immature people fight about. "Then Peter replied, 'I see very clearly that God shows no favoritism. But in every nation, anyone who fears (respects) Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him.'" Acts 10:34-35
In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, neither black nor white, neither Jew or Palestinians, but we are all one in Christ Jesus!! Thank you Holy Father ❤️❤️❤️
Dear DC talk! My brother was a marine vet in 1991. He was 10yrs older than me. He came home in 92 and showed my mom and I ur guys music. My mom and I were Christians amd we absolutely loved all ur music! My mom was in her late 40s in the early 90s music and loved ur sound. She said if hip hop was this she would li e all of it lol. She passed away in 2012 feom pancreatic cancer but I still to this day listen to all ur music including all of solo albums! I love u guys! My brother passed away in 2015 feom rectal cancer. I will never stop listening to u guys.
Did your brother serve during the gulf war? I’m also a veteran from that time period. I’m sure that your mom and brother are in the arms of our lord. Rest easy sister.
This song refers to the fact that God is a master artisan, and that our differences in appearance should be celebrated rather than denigrated. Those racists among you, take note - God is no respector of persons. You will face judgment along with every other member of the human race, when time comes. We are all part of the same tapestry.
God also created the nations of peoples, each of them with an appointed land and border. When man tried to come together as one God got angered and separated us and gave us diffeent languages.
@@exposingantiwhiteism5091, God wasn’t angry that they came together. You totally missed the point of that story. They came together to build a tower that would reach the heavens. They were trying to get to heaven by their own power. They also missed the point! The only way we can get to heaven is through Christ, not through our own power. God was angry that his creation was trying to prove that they didn’t need him, so he showed them otherwise.
Worked at Family Bookstores, 1990-1996. Though saved in 1981, working there with 90s Pxtian music on the PA and books on the shelves got me up to speed on my new Christian life including DC Talk. Great times and worth it all at minimum wage in a mall. Name change to Family Christian Stores, later both mall I’d worked in and Family Bookstores no longer existed: but the knowledge 🎶🎶”our rock is greater than their rock” lives on in me. (Though Terry Livgren & Kansas made it big & I loved them, & was part of “their rock,” surprise! He got SAVED!) (Search “Testimony of Terry Livgren”)
My Dad passed away last week, which led me to begin sorting his possessions. Came across all the CDs I grew up listening/playing the drums to. DC Talk was among them. Thank you for the memories and smooth jams! #grateful
I am a Christian, I grew up listening to DC talk, and I still love the inspiration they gave me. You could say I started playing Guitar because of them. But It's not all because of them, Its because God used them to send me his message. God showed me through them what life is all about. Thanks Lord.
Really I don't think racism is much of a problem it's the liberals that try to stir people up. But really not many people care about skin colors anymore we do coexist just fine for the most part. Just my opinion though.
@Tori Frazer hi Tori i trust you're doing well. I found this really swell group of people they have a yt channel called needGodnet they do a livestream every night if you're ever able to you should join in the comments , the live chat is great. They also have insta and tik tok if you have either of those
* THIS * is Christianity!!! How incredibly groundbreaking this video still is… The video addresses race, color, creed, ableism, ageism. DC Talk is/was beyond incredible. 🙏🏼💜
This is the message of Jesus peace be upon him. This is the truth. No classes, no races , outside anything matters. If people want to kick it, let them.
Six year old comment, but I’m gonna reply anyway. Kevin, Michael, and Toby just sound so good together, and complement the others perfectly. Beautiful.
As I read and study His Word, He came as the one spotless, sinless soul sacrifice FOR ALL WHO BELIEVE IN HIM, even us petty Gentiles, as He says that if ANYONE BELIEVETH UPON HIM, they ARE SAVED. ANYONE. Yes, the Jews are God, THE FATHER'S, chosen people, but they turned their backs on Him. God is a Father of UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, and if you believe upon Him, IT DOES NOT MATTER what "religion" you are, as that is man made, then you are a part of His Bride that He is returning for. BELIEVE UPON HIM and you will be saved from eternal damnation! Thanks for all of your comments. Remember: the ONLY sin that can NOT BE FORGIVEN, is denying Him all the way to your earthly death.
I really believe that the Holy Spirit used this band to write this song as a prophecy that we are going to come together. God ❤❤❤is bringing us all together in this election of 2024! I feel the love of the red ,yellow, blacks and whites when I go out to the grocery stores and anywhere else to run errands. This is a BEAUTIFUL song! I believe racism is ENDING in the United States of America 🇺🇸 PRAISE GOD!! ❤
This song should be all over the radio. It’s a great song with a great message. Much more positive and hopeful than a lot of diversity stuff going around
I grew up listening to DC Talk and Newsboys. Songs about God and loving/helping your fellow man. Kids grow up now listening to songs about sex, drugs, violence and money. It's really a shame. God has been taken out of everyday life slowly over time. We have lost our way.
"We are colored people who depend on a holy grace" - If we all listened to those words and allowed them to take ALL of us down a peg, these tensions today would soon evaporate. We should all show forgiveness because we're all in need of forgiveness.
I really never thought much of racism, I grew up in Idaho. But, I listened to and really liked DC Talk and Petra from like 1st grade. Fortunately though, I did meet an awesome brother in Christ many years ago, in my 20's at the same mental health outpatient clinic. We found out our circumstances were more similar to each other than my identical twin's are with mine. It was an awesome relationship that I know i will cherish forever. We both have the same diagnosis. We found so much comfort in our friendship. He is black and I am white. But, yes, it worked out very well.
Out of all DC talk songs this is the one that means the most to me. It defines me. I hate how AA's are considered "colored." We're all colors. Beautiful colors. The human race is a rainbow
In south Africa I'm classified as a " coloured" .we were not givin a specific name , some coloureds look fairly white and some look black.mixed race would sound much more offensive
One of my favorite memories of growing up as a 90s kid was listening 🎧 to DC talk with our youth group. Lol that and the wwjd bracelets and jewelry. I definitely took those years for granted.
Post-Man Sadly because it has a God themed based around it it won't be trending. Nothing Godly ever trends because the world acts like the world. It actually breaks my heart...
Esa canción me ayudó a aceptar mi color de piel. Tenía 11 años cuando la escuché y sin saber inglés pude sentir el mensaje. Gracias DC Talk por esas letras.
I grew up listening to DC talk- despite being Jewish, not Christian. This song was so formative for teaching me about diversity and inclusion. The music video is so powerful. Thank you for bringing this warmth into the world.
With all the cap now???Share this song as much as you can...SHARE THE HOLY HECK OUT OF IT! Let people know they are loved no matter color and remind them this came out before a lot of them were born! We have a world and we got to share it. Love you all in Jesus Name! Kisses and hugs!
Im 40 now. I ve been listening to dc talk since i was 16. I still abbsolutely love this band. Please guys ,do a reunion tour. Im gonna pray about it right now
One of the greatest christian bands of all time. Created songs that made people think and confront what was wrong in their own lives. I remember seeing them in concert when they were on their Jesus Freak tour and talk about awesome. TobyMac even shared the Word with the audience.
Growing up where I did.... gulf coast Mississippi, growing up when I did… 70s-80s, growing up with the name I did, growing up how I did, the only way I will ever be able to overcome the racial boundary is through God’s help. And I search for that...Every… Single… Day!
TBN introduced me to this song in 2004,its 2 decades now and the song is as sweet as it was when i first heard it. Thank you Lord for preserving my life... its coloured people even in 2024
I never saw a musical band like this. That takes the gospel to the youth through example and excellent music. I love you DC Talk. I hope to meet you some day. Greetings from Argentina 💪🏼
Now this is the type of Christian music I can get behind, where it's messaging is more honest, subtle and nuanced instead of pandering and overt. They care more about the art of their craft instead of preaching to the choir.
"A piece of canvas is only the beginning for It takes on character with every loving stroke This thing of beauty is the passion of an Artist's heart By God's design, we are a skin kaleidoscope" Probably my favorite line in all of Christian music. It portrays God as Artist, and our human bodies as a canvas that God decorates. Many of us know what it feels like to be "in the zone" creating something meaningful to us. The pride in it, the desire to see it completed. Maybe writing a song or a story/novel, maybe a drawing, knitting a sweater, programming code. That feeling of passion and excitement while creating that you don't even want to eat, sleep and you definitely don't want to stop...It's neat to imagine God experiencing a similar feeling of passion while creating each individual human.
I run a chamber of commerce in a minority majority community. I started a Black owned business conference that was in opposition to the majority of my white board. I recognized that our diversity was the key to our community growing!! It was a HUGE success and those racist board members of mine all left my board!! Thank you for sharing truth long before it was popular!!!
Wow, being a baby boomer that grew up with DC Talk is making me more excited about the seeing this video and hearing this song again. Remember that nothing is new under the sun. The world continues to make the same mistake like the Biblical times. Share this song Be a doer and not one with an opinion.
There is life in Christian music when I am feeling really bad inside I listen to my Christian music and it takes the bad feelings away praise be to God and thank God for all the Christians who make awesome music if it wasn't for them I would be dead already I cannot count how many times that my Christian music has brought me back to life again thank you sincerely from your brother in the Lord Alan.
This song brought tears to my eyes as I look around and see so much hate over skin tone - realizing Jesus died for each of our sins, irrespective of ethnicity, gender, age or other differences immature people fight about. "Then Peter replied, 'I see very clearly that God shows no favoritism. But in every nation, anyone who fears (respects) Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him.'" Acts 10:34-35
2020 and these words are more true today than ever. I pray one day we can see each other equal and not as different because of a skin color. Love one another as Christ loved you
2020 please watch this. God please help all of us. No matter age, race, and religion. Please bless all your children and put your hand over all of us tonight. We love you Lord. Thank you for showing mercy on such a sinner as myself. I LOVE YOU, GOD!!
Kevin Max changed, he left that evangelical gimmick which was actually a good move but claiming to be anarchist and socialist worshiping a "universal Christ" while supporting left-wing causes sounds like moves toward ANTIChrist to me...
The gentleman who was from South Africa, Mr. Mark Coetzee,. stated that he did not know why people always looked at the South African population as a dark color, not brown but of a darker shade somewhat closer to black. He feels that many of us look at things this way. My only response to him would be that each of us makes up a piece of the puzzle, whether red, yellow, black, white, brown, or any other color. Thank God He made us all different colors so we would be able to weather our specific living areas.. There are things like climate, land area such as the desert, or jungles, etc. which are very diverse areas, and the people who inhabit those areas need a darker pigmentation, as well as courser skin, God ultimately had His plans when He made the world and I thank Him for the time He took to make sure we were each able to adapt to our different habitat .May thanks be to God for the undying attention that He placed upon our world when He made it and us. Let thanks also be for the grace He shows each of us every second of every day. Peace to all who believe and also to the non believers. This is only my belief and I respect other's beliefs as well. We were not all put here to believe the same thing. That is what makes our world diverse.. I believe that there is a happy median that we each must personally respect and find. May God bless us all. Thanks be to God. Amen.
I heard this songs for the first time in 2013, I cant believe they were released in 1995, its amazing, they were really ahead of their time! I WELCOME THEIR REUNION WITH ALL ME HEART!
Ahead of their time?! Nope. They suddenly turned from rap to grunge 2-3 years after grunge hit mainstream. Professional & well-produced compared to other CCM? Yes.
+emeraldtryangle I miss them too, but thankfully they're still around. TobyMac still does solo stuff, Michael Tait is with Newsboys now, and Kevin Max is with Audio Adrenaline.
As one who has adopted cross culturally, this song has special meaning to me. We get lots of stares....but it's ok. We adopt in part because we've been adopted (Ephesians 1), and our Loving Heavenly Adopter loves all shades of melatonin too
Escribo este comentario para que todo el que escuche este himno sepa que Dios es el ser de amor y nunca olvidarlo. Me llegue la notificación y debo venir a escucharlo, si le dan me gusta. Un abrazo desde Francia!!! Llevo más de 20 años escuchándolo. ❤👌 #DcTalk
+David Tingwald The Bible actually says that there is only one race: the human race. There are different ethnicities, skin colors, and cultures, but only one race. Acts 17:6: all men and women come from one ancestor, Adam. That is the solution to racism: to recognize that we are all the same race to begin with.
+Marc A. I would disagree, based on the word blood as used in the Greek text. We are of one blood, seperate races, yet of one blood. After JCs birth, (death more particularly, opening the way up for all 'whosever would understand'. Hence no longer was Marys family bloodline (back to Adam and Eve), on both her moms lineage (Aaron, priesthood), her dads (David, kingship), brought back together at his birth, the only reason a particular bloodline was ever needed to be kept pure, for that one reason, alone. Do not add one period (jot) into a sentence when interpreting the ideas behind the words in that book. His death then opened the way unto all, with no religious tradition of man, of any kind, neccessary to be enlightened to JCs 'way' henceforth, period. If you exclude for reasons not according to JC ie skin color, races, you will have in deed done so unto your own self, now and on atonement day and in that sense, directly unto JC, even if/when following all JCs precepts in all other ways. Suffer the (all) children...! The ignoring of which, has penalties. From what I've read anyway. js.
I remember every step of the dance I did in eighth grade. That was twenty four years ago. "We are a skin kaleidoscope." It was true then and it is true now. If only people would "See the beauty in the tones of our skin."
On repeat in my house/car recently. Love the dialogue it's sparked with my 8 year old son. Man...can't love these guys and this song more. Even 25 years later.
Colored People is still one of my favorite songs of all time. I remember it came out when I was in high school and the catchy Rhythm caught my attention before the words caught my heart.
DC Talk have always been so creative with their lyrics and sound. They never were ashamed of ministering God's word through their music. Gosh, every song of theirs takes me back when I was a teen in the 90s.
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To me there is only one race, that's human race. We're all beautifully made by God and are the apple 🍏 of his eyes 👀.
❤
Don't get me wrong, but this song is MORE relevant that it was 25 years ago. There is beauty in the tones of skin.
So true.
I Love this song
This song, that I loved 25 years ago, popped into my head today, and I thought of how fitting the message is today. Still. So I am seeing the video for the first time ever.
Amen
"By God's design, we are a skin kaleidoscope"!❤️
If you are just now getting here because of everything that is going on in our world today, consider listening to the whole entire album. 25 years old and it's still has not lost its value or its meaning.
I still have the cassette from back in the day!
Agreed.
Real talk.
Not very heavy into Christian music. Only a handful of albums in my vast music collection and this one is still a favourite of mine.
It’s a brilliant album
This is pure gold. From 1996, Jesus Freak LP. It could have been from three days ago it's so relevant today. It's why I'm playing it today on October 8th 2024.
Still listening to this in 2024.
Same!
Me too
me too!
Wow 2024 is almost over😢
Ditto
DC talk was ahead of their time. This stuff should be coming out now with how divided we are.
It was divided back then too unfortunately. :/
sarahsue123 Just posted those same words few days ago on Facebook.
This song brought tears to my eyes as I look around and see so much hate over skin tone - realizing Jesus died for each of our sins, irrespective of ethnicity, gender, age or other differences immature people fight about.
"Then Peter replied, 'I see very clearly that God shows no favoritism. But in every nation, anyone who fears (respects) Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him.'" Acts 10:34-35
TRUE
Amen!!! we need a song like this today...to remind us we are a wonderful skin kaleidoscope and we need to come together...skin color is superficial
In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, neither black nor white, neither Jew or Palestinians, but we are all one in Christ Jesus!! Thank you Holy Father ❤️❤️❤️
If we all came from Adam and Eve, There is no such thing as Races. There is only one single race called the Human Race.
Dear DC talk!
My brother was a marine vet in 1991. He was 10yrs older than me. He came home in 92 and showed my mom and I ur guys music. My mom and I were Christians amd we absolutely loved all ur music! My mom was in her late 40s in the early 90s music and loved ur sound. She said if hip hop was this she would li e all of it lol. She passed away in 2012 feom pancreatic cancer but I still to this day listen to all ur music including all of solo albums! I love u guys! My brother passed away in 2015 feom rectal cancer. I will never stop listening to u guys.
Jesus loves you sister.
Grace be with you ❤️
Did your brother serve during the gulf war? I’m also a veteran from that time period. I’m sure that your mom and brother are in the arms of our lord. Rest easy sister.
"By God's design we are a skin kaleidescope"......The most amazing line ever written for a song!!!
Vengeance is the Lord's, if we aspire to share this space repentance is the cure.
@@zachrichards1872 Amen!!
That line gives me goosebumps every. single. time. Just gorgeous.
Amen
This song is still relevant today, 20 years later.
yeah, after all this racial division had to listen to this song again. just wish everyone could hear it
Ari Koinuma
Ari Koinuma Yes sir. God is the same yesterday, today and forever 😊✌
Yep
More relevant after obama.
A song that we need so badly right now
Amen always and forever!
True blood in
And you probably have no idea why .......
@@voicevitality7197 enlighten us......
@@danamichelle1290 There is only one color that faces socially acceptable racial discrimination on a daily basis in the modern Western world.
My grandmother loves these guys...RIP Grandma...I miss you more than you'll ever know!
I am a Christian Grandma listening to these guys in 10/2024
This song refers to the fact that God is a master artisan, and that our differences in appearance should be celebrated rather than denigrated. Those racists among you, take note - God is no respector of persons. You will face judgment along with every other member of the human race, when time comes. We are all part of the same tapestry.
+Ralph Pierro II Well said. Amen. God embraces all shades of brown and respect is earned, not given.
How beautifully put Ralph. I am touched.
God also created the nations of peoples, each of them with an appointed land and border. When man tried to come together as one God got angered and separated us and gave us diffeent languages.
@@exposingantiwhiteism5091, God wasn’t angry that they came together. You totally missed the point of that story. They came together to build a tower that would reach the heavens. They were trying to get to heaven by their own power. They also missed the point! The only way we can get to heaven is through Christ, not through our own power. God was angry that his creation was trying to prove that they didn’t need him, so he showed them otherwise.
@@madeleinewallace76 Acts 17:26. Each nation has a boundary.
Miss my 90's Christian music
Miss the way Church was in the 90's.
Worked at Family Bookstores, 1990-1996. Though saved in 1981, working there with 90s Pxtian music on the PA and books on the shelves got me up to speed on my new Christian life including DC Talk. Great times and worth it all at minimum wage in a mall. Name change to Family Christian Stores, later both mall I’d worked in and Family Bookstores no longer existed: but the knowledge 🎶🎶”our rock is greater than their rock” lives on in me. (Though Terry Livgren & Kansas made it big & I loved them, & was part of “their rock,” surprise! He got SAVED!) (Search “Testimony of Terry Livgren”)
My Dad passed away last week, which led me to begin sorting his possessions. Came across all the CDs I grew up listening/playing the drums to. DC Talk was among them. Thank you for the memories and smooth jams! #grateful
Sorry to hear of his passing. A good way to celebrate his memory
Lines in this song have been on my mind for over 2 years. It is still relevant now.
I am a Christian, I grew up listening to DC talk, and I still love the inspiration they gave me. You could say I started playing Guitar because of them. But It's not all because of them, Its because God used them to send me his message. God showed me through them what life is all about. Thanks Lord.
U still with us?
I played the base in church because of them. Their message raised me as a kid. It always God he just knew music would draw me closer
Any audio adrenalin? Super good
DC Talk were so ahead of their time.
Everyone needs to listen to this with all the division we have right now
Yeah! For pity's sake, this is the UNITED States! NOT the DIVIDED States!
Really I don't think racism is much of a problem it's the liberals that try to stir people up. But really not many people care about skin colors anymore we do coexist just fine for the most part. Just my opinion though.
@Tori Frazer yeah you're right
@Tori Frazer for sure. God bless you that you have learned to see the truth
@Tori Frazer hi Tori i trust you're doing well. I found this really swell group of people they have a yt channel called needGodnet they do a livestream every night if you're ever able to you should join in the comments , the live chat is great. They also have insta and tik tok if you have either of those
* THIS * is Christianity!!! How incredibly groundbreaking this video still is… The video addresses race, color, creed, ableism, ageism. DC Talk is/was beyond incredible. 🙏🏼💜
This is the message of Jesus peace be upon him. This is the truth. No classes, no races , outside anything matters. If people want to kick it, let them.
You used a high five emoji
@@sherrismall8638 doesn't matter we know what was meant
@@You.r.overdue Jesus Christ is GOD!
Kevin's voice is so incredible and distinctive.
Six year old comment, but I’m gonna reply anyway. Kevin, Michael, and Toby just sound so good together, and complement the others perfectly. Beautiful.
...and Michael's is excellent.
So true, he has an ethereal quality that I haven't heard in anyone else.
They were amazing together but Kevin is my favorite!
Is Kevin the lead on this song?.. Is he still singing today?.. LOVE his voice!
No matter what color we are...ALL BLOOD RUNS RED. But ONLY HIS BLOOD can wash our sins away! I love this song and never get tired of hearing it.
amen the same almost be said about churches Baptist ,methodist, and so and so. Jesus died for his people in the church.
mike mcgann He actually came for the lost house of Israel.
SHA8UTIE no you are both wrong He died so that everybody can be saved no matter who you are.
Garrus Vakarian True. He came only for the lost sheep of Israel though.
As I read and study His Word, He came as the one spotless, sinless soul sacrifice FOR ALL WHO BELIEVE IN HIM, even us petty Gentiles, as He says that if ANYONE BELIEVETH UPON HIM, they ARE SAVED. ANYONE. Yes, the Jews are God, THE FATHER'S, chosen people, but they turned their backs on Him. God is a Father of UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, and if you believe upon Him, IT DOES NOT MATTER what "religion" you are, as that is man made, then you are a part of His Bride that He is returning for. BELIEVE UPON HIM and you will be saved from eternal damnation! Thanks for all of your comments. Remember: the ONLY sin that can NOT BE FORGIVEN, is denying Him all the way to your earthly death.
This song came out way ahead of its time really!!
In Brazil we Love DC talk!!!
Hear in 2020🔥
I really believe that the Holy Spirit used this band to write this song as a prophecy that we are going to come together. God ❤❤❤is bringing us all together in this election of 2024! I feel the love of the red ,yellow, blacks and whites when I go out to the grocery stores and anywhere else to run errands. This is a BEAUTIFUL song! I believe racism is ENDING in the United States of America 🇺🇸 PRAISE GOD!! ❤
One of the best songs ever recorded, by anyone, in any genre.
Todd Gilmore Amen!
One of my favorites
Alive?
@@joem13yearsago73 good question!
@@ToddGilmore 🤝🙏🙏
This song should be all over the radio. It’s a great song with a great message. Much more positive and hopeful than a lot of diversity stuff going around
I grew up listening to DC Talk and Newsboys. Songs about God and loving/helping your fellow man. Kids grow up now listening to songs about sex, drugs, violence and money.
It's really a shame. God has been taken out of everyday life slowly over time. We have lost our way.
True
Holla! 'He' is the God of 'all creation! We gotta come together in the name of Jesus! Glory,Hallelujah! Blessings
"We are colored people who depend on a holy grace" - If we all listened to those words and allowed them to take ALL of us down a peg, these tensions today would soon evaporate. We should all show forgiveness because we're all in need of forgiveness.
Amen
I really never thought much of racism, I grew up in Idaho. But, I listened to and really liked DC Talk and Petra from like 1st grade. Fortunately though, I did meet an awesome brother in Christ many years ago, in my 20's at the same mental health outpatient clinic. We found out our circumstances were more similar to each other than my identical twin's are with mine. It was an awesome relationship that I know i will cherish forever. We both have the same diagnosis. We found so much comfort in our friendship. He is black and I am white. But, yes, it worked out very well.
This song is a good reminder that no matter the color of our skin, every man and woman is created in the image of God.
this song gives me chills!! such an important song that so many people desperately need to listen to today.
Haven't heard this in ages, still an epic song!
Out of all DC talk songs this is the one that means the most to me. It defines me. I hate how AA's are considered "colored." We're all colors. Beautiful colors. The human race is a rainbow
Very true nicely put
In south Africa I'm classified as a " coloured" .we were not givin a specific name , some coloureds look fairly white and some look black.mixed race would sound much more offensive
So TRUE, we are ALL beautifully colored people!!!!!! This song says it so well....
We’re all one bro!
This thing of beauty is the passion of an Artist's heart.
By God's design, we are a skin kaleidoscope.
The more I look back at this band the more I realize how genius and prophetic they were. Beautiful lyrics and such important messages!!
One of my favorite memories of growing up as a 90s kid was listening 🎧 to DC talk with our youth group. Lol that and the wwjd bracelets and jewelry. I definitely took those years for granted.
true God-given inspiration is never understood by those who initially receive it. :D
This song needs to go viral right now!!! We NEED it sooo bad!!!
I just shared it on FB...everyone should!!!
Yes! A remake would be HUGE right now!!!
I think this video needs to be trending right now, with everything that's currently happening in America...
Share it around!
Post-Man Sadly because it has a God themed based around it it won't be trending. Nothing Godly ever trends because the world acts like the world. It actually breaks my heart...
Post-Man What do you mean?
My post was referring to the growing racial tensions last year with all of the cop shootings and the Black Lives Matters stuff happening.
Yes! I was thinking that same thing!
Esa canción me ayudó a aceptar mi color de piel. Tenía 11 años cuando la escuché y sin saber inglés pude sentir el mensaje. Gracias DC Talk por esas letras.
It's disturbing that this is so relevant and topical this many years later.
I grew up listening to DC talk- despite being Jewish, not Christian. This song was so formative for teaching me about diversity and inclusion. The music video is so powerful. Thank you for bringing this warmth into the world.
These guys are eternal.......My hair still stands at the sound of their music...Even in 2017!
Mine in 2019. Powerful lyrics in each song
@@anitaphillip8772 2020 Hasn't changed that for me. Its changed a lot but not this.
Still here in 2022 and we need this even more.
And still in 2023 !
“Aren’t we all HUMAN after all.,.” WOW!!
Needed to hear this one for some random reason today. Never gets old. Freak for life.
DC Talk are prophetic
this guys where wayyy ahead of time
With all the cap now???Share this song as much as you can...SHARE THE HOLY HECK OUT OF IT! Let people know they are loved no matter color and remind them this came out before a lot of them were born! We have a world and we got to share it. Love you all in Jesus Name! Kisses and hugs!
Im 40 now. I ve been listening to dc talk since i was 16. I still abbsolutely love this band. Please guys ,do a reunion tour. Im gonna pray about it right now
Same here but I am 38
yep, same. They are doing boat cruise tours...
@@candacecasey5634 I still love their music too & I'm 43.. Some of the best groups will NEVER be outgrown! :)
Same! @41 yrs of age
I saw them in 1993. They performed in my city after the great flood. Fabulous talented band
We need to hear this song because the generation that we live in today is sad 😞
Color doesnt matter. We all work hard. We all should be treated the same in respect. Its Love. God is Love. If we dont have love we dont have God.
The truth can be hidden, but not for long because it is eternal. God created us all in His image, yet in beautiful varying colors!
We are the HUMAN RACE! Everyone needs to play this as loud as they can around the world!
I grew up listening to this band and when they split up they still rocking 😎😎😎
Once again....we need this more than ever today.....
Mandisa and Toby Mac have a song out called "We all bleed the same" Toby Mac is still spreading the same message. Yall will love it. ❤️
All lives are precious in the sight of God.
One of the greatest christian bands of all time. Created songs that made people think and confront what was wrong in their own lives. I remember seeing them in concert when they were on their Jesus Freak tour and talk about awesome. TobyMac even shared the Word with the audience.
Hey Dave. How's it goin?
Our skin color glorifies God like flowers in the field . Worth gathering in order to give to a woman we love. Flowers that Christ gave to his Church!
Growing up where I did.... gulf coast Mississippi, growing up when I did… 70s-80s, growing up with the name I did, growing up how I did, the only way I will ever be able to overcome the racial boundary is through God’s help. And I search for that...Every… Single… Day!
2019 anyone?! My Favorite DCTALK song of all time!!! Brilliant 👌👌👌
TBN introduced me to this song in 2004,its 2 decades now and the song is as sweet as it was when i first heard it. Thank you Lord for preserving my life... its coloured people even in 2024
I never saw a musical band like this. That takes the gospel to the youth through example and excellent music. I love you DC Talk. I hope to meet you some day. Greetings from Argentina 💪🏼
"We need to come together and thank the Maker of us all."
Who else wants to see D.C. talk play this song on Black Lives Matter Street in DC. With a bunch area churches from ALL walks of life in attendance?
I still remember buying this cd. The music is still amazing.
Now this is the type of Christian music I can get behind, where it's messaging is more honest, subtle and nuanced instead of pandering and overt. They care more about the art of their craft instead of preaching to the choir.
A perfect song for such a time as this.
"Repentance is the cure"
WE'RE COLORED PEOPLE....
WE ALL BLEED THE SAME!!!
REPENTANCE IS THE JOY
Someone needs to do a cover of this song. It needs to be on the radio again.
"A piece of canvas is only the beginning for
It takes on character with every loving stroke
This thing of beauty is the passion of an Artist's heart
By God's design, we are a skin kaleidoscope"
Probably my favorite line in all of Christian music. It portrays God as Artist, and our human bodies as a canvas that God decorates. Many of us know what it feels like to be "in the zone" creating something meaningful to us. The pride in it, the desire to see it completed. Maybe writing a song or a story/novel, maybe a drawing, knitting a sweater, programming code. That feeling of passion and excitement while creating that you don't even want to eat, sleep and you definitely don't want to stop...It's neat to imagine God experiencing a similar feeling of passion while creating each individual human.
I run a chamber of commerce in a minority majority community. I started a Black owned business conference that was in opposition to the majority of my white board. I recognized that our diversity was the key to our community growing!! It was a HUGE success and those racist board members of mine all left my board!! Thank you for sharing truth long before it was popular!!!
January 2017 and this song STILL speaks volumes!!!
Wow, being a baby boomer that grew up with DC Talk is making me more excited about the seeing this video and hearing this song again. Remember that nothing is new under the sun. The world continues to make the same mistake like the Biblical times. Share this song Be a doer and not one with an opinion.
Amen!
There is life in Christian music when I am feeling really bad inside I listen to my Christian music and it takes the bad feelings away praise be to God and thank God for all the Christians who make awesome music if it wasn't for them I would be dead already I cannot count how many times that my Christian music has brought me back to life again thank you sincerely from your brother in the Lord Alan.
This song brought tears to my eyes as I look around and see so much hate over skin tone - realizing Jesus died for each of our sins, irrespective of ethnicity, gender, age or other differences immature people fight about.
"Then Peter replied, 'I see very clearly that God shows no favoritism. But in every nation, anyone who fears (respects) Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him.'" Acts 10:34-35
Thank you. ❤️
Jesus died so there wasnt war between jews
He died for the elect.
THIS SONG SHOULD BE OUR WORLD ANTHEM !!!! 🌎🌍❤️
2020 and these words are more true today than ever. I pray one day we can see each other equal and not as different because of a skin color. Love one another as Christ loved you
Not a Big Fan of Christian Music, but Love this Song.
2020 please watch this. God please help all of us. No matter age, race, and religion. Please bless all your children and put your hand over all of us tonight. We love you Lord. Thank you for showing mercy on such a sinner as myself. I LOVE YOU, GOD!!
We sure do need these precious words now. God keep all three of these men in your hands as they tell it like it SHOULD be.
Kevin Max changed, he left that evangelical gimmick which was actually a good move but claiming to be anarchist and socialist worshiping a "universal Christ" while supporting left-wing causes sounds like moves toward ANTIChrist to me...
The gentleman who was from South Africa, Mr. Mark Coetzee,. stated that he did not know why people always looked at the South African population as a dark color, not brown but of a darker shade somewhat closer to black. He feels that many of us look at things this way. My only response to him would be that each of us makes up a piece of the puzzle, whether red, yellow, black, white, brown, or any other color. Thank God He made us all different colors so we would be able to weather our specific living areas.. There are things like climate, land area such as the desert, or jungles, etc. which are very diverse areas, and the people who inhabit those areas need a darker pigmentation, as well as courser skin, God ultimately had His plans when He made the world and I thank Him for the time He took to make sure we were each able to adapt to our different habitat .May thanks be to God for the undying attention that He placed upon our world when He made it and us. Let thanks also be for the grace He shows each of us every second of every day. Peace to all who believe and also to the non believers. This is only my belief and I respect other's beliefs as well. We were not all put here to believe the same thing. That is what makes our world diverse.. I believe that there is a happy median that we each must personally respect and find. May God bless us all. Thanks be to God. Amen.
I heard this songs for the first time in 2013, I cant believe they were released in 1995, its amazing, they were really ahead of their time! I WELCOME THEIR REUNION WITH ALL ME HEART!
Ahead of their time?! Nope. They suddenly turned from rap to grunge 2-3 years after grunge hit mainstream. Professional & well-produced compared to other CCM? Yes.
This song was such a huge part of my childhood. God bless DC Talk. I miss these guys.
+emeraldtryangle I miss them too, but thankfully they're still around. TobyMac still does solo stuff, Michael Tait is with Newsboys now, and Kevin Max is with Audio Adrenaline.
+axisfighter Actually Kevin Max went back to his solo stuff once he left Audio A.
As one who has adopted cross culturally, this song has special meaning to me. We get lots of stares....but it's ok. We adopt in part because we've been adopted (Ephesians 1), and our Loving Heavenly Adopter loves all shades of melatonin too
Escribo este comentario para que todo el que escuche este himno sepa que Dios es el ser de amor y nunca olvidarlo.
Me llegue la notificación y debo venir a escucharlo, si le dan me gusta.
Un abrazo desde Francia!!!
Llevo más de 20 años escuchándolo. ❤👌
#DcTalk
With everything going on in our world, we need to remember this today and always!!
I think it’s been like over 15 years since I heard this. I still know all the words from this song. Such a great song. Miss the 90s Christian music.
90s music video cliches seem so dated, but this music has aged very well.
+africkinamerican , it seems that I post this link on Facebook at least once every week or two. Its message is so powerful and pointed to me.
+africkinamerican I know, it still seems so recent and its definitely still a hot topic (race).
+David Tingwald The Bible actually says that there is only one race: the human race. There are different ethnicities, skin colors, and cultures, but only one race.
Acts 17:6: all men and women come from one ancestor, Adam. That is the solution to racism: to recognize that we are all the same race to begin with.
+David Tingwald That should be "Acts 17:26;" sorry for my typo.
+Marc A. I would disagree, based on the word blood as used in the Greek text. We are of one blood, seperate races, yet of one blood.
After JCs birth, (death more particularly, opening the way up for all 'whosever would understand'. Hence no longer was Marys family bloodline (back to Adam and Eve), on both her moms lineage (Aaron, priesthood), her dads (David, kingship), brought back together at his birth, the only reason a particular bloodline was ever needed to be kept pure, for that one reason, alone. Do not add one period (jot) into a sentence when interpreting the ideas behind the words in that book.
His death then opened the way unto all, with no religious tradition of man, of any kind, neccessary to be enlightened to JCs 'way' henceforth, period.
If you exclude for reasons not according to JC ie skin color, races, you will have in deed done so unto your own self, now and on atonement day and in that sense, directly unto JC, even if/when following all JCs precepts in all other ways.
Suffer the (all) children...!
The ignoring of which, has penalties.
From what I've read anyway. js.
I remember every step of the dance I did in eighth grade. That was twenty four years ago. "We are a skin kaleidoscope." It was true then and it is true now. If only people would "See the beauty in the tones of our skin."
Everyone needs share this on every social media outlet thay can!!!
Such a beautiful song, video, and message. Let's thank the Maker of us all.
It's been 20 years since this was played, and still no sign of DC Talk anywhere in the media.
@Sharebear79 Oh sweet!!!!
I just want to blast this song everywhere I go right now.
Such a great song. It says it all, repentance is the cure. Without God in our hearts there is no end to the hate.
This is just a relevant today in 2023. God is good and we're all colared people.
Cool. Also, we're all colored people.
On repeat in my house/car recently. Love the dialogue it's sparked with my 8 year old son. Man...can't love these guys and this song more. Even 25 years later.
Loved this song back in 1995 and still do now!!
Colored People is still one of my favorite songs of all time. I remember it came out when I was in high school and the catchy Rhythm caught my attention before the words caught my heart.
Always blows me away the level of production on this album. Every song is just perfect, cannot flaw it one bit
DC Talk have always been so creative with their lyrics and sound. They never were ashamed of ministering God's word through their music. Gosh, every song of theirs takes me back when I was a teen in the 90s.
I was a college student just turning 21 and enjoying being a "Bohemian believer)
Jesus Freak defined rebellion for me!
Amen.
@@africkinamerican you got the rebellion part right
Can't say Kevin had those motives. Look up Kevin Max deconstruction faith.