“Like their forbears during Jim Crow
segregation, who prescribed kindness toward people of other races, but did not
challenge the Jim Crow system, present-day white evangelicals attempt to solve
the race problem without shaking the foundations on which racialization is
built. As long as they do not see or acknowledge the structures of
racialization, they inadvertently contribute to them. And, insofar as they
continue to give solutions that do not challenge racialization, they allow
racial inequality and division to continue unabated.”
Christian Smith and Michael O. Emerson, Divided
by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (New
York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 132.
[Read the
Introduction to 95 Theses for Christian Racial & Ethnic Unity here.]
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