Power
is the acidic catalyst that perverts righteousness into privilege; justice into
favoritism; steadfast love into lust, and truth into selectivity; power is the dynamos that drives dominating,
marginalizing, corrupting, and creates places of oppression . . . .A politics
of love demands confession of sins. In America, white folks need to confess
their complicity in social structures of white supremacy that give them power
and privileges not shared by people of color. Furthermore, they need to
actively work toward dismantling these racist structures through changing
politics, programs, and personnel of their places of work and houses of
worship. Antiracist whites should follow the lead of antiracist leaders of
color in embodying new institutions that are fundamentally just and loving. . .
. A love supreme must press beyond the black-white binary toward a prophetic
intercultural future that is inclusive of all people, black, white, and every
shade in between. We must listen deeply, earnestly, for a love supreme amidst
the travail of our life together.
Peter
Goodwin Heltzel, Resurrection City: A Theology of Improvisation (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012), 152-153,
167.
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