Our
lives together are indelibly marked by race. The complicated interconnections
of belonging and exclusion, foods and music, practices and hopes, and simple
ways of being in the world are not easily untangled from our claims of who
Christ is for us and for the world. Because of this, the question of race is
not merely about practices or acts that should be eliminated. The question of
race for Christians is about the shape of our lives together and what might
prevent us from binding ourselves to one another in ways that produce a real
disruption to the racial imagination and its oppressive systems in the modern
world.
Brian
Bantum, “Why Christians Can’t Be Post-Racial: Christian Existence in the Murky
Waters of Race and Place,” The Other Journal (August
17, 2009).
[Read
the Introduction to 95 Theses for Christian Racial & Ethnic Unity here.]
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