Making the Past the Past
For white American Christians, racism is an extraordinarily stubborn sin, resistant to being identified, named as wrong, being called out as wrong, and being expunged from the life of the holy believer.
For white American Christians, racism is an extraordinarily stubborn sin, resistant to being identified, named as wrong, being called out as wrong, and being expunged from the life of the holy believer.
This article is about those who don’t acknowledge systemic racism—those who may admit that America had a racist past but believe that racism ended long ago.
We’ve tried the same failed tactics and strategies again and again only to achieve the same tepid results. We’ve tried it all—except for the one mindset we should’ve tried from the beginning.
What America can learn from Rwanda and South Africa about enacting restorative justice.
Every black person has a PhD in racism. We learn how to recognize it, how to work through it, and how to survive assaults that happen our entire lives
Racist rhetoric is nothing new in American politics.