By Rachel Ricketts — 2017
What is shocking is how many white folks are trying to distance themselves from the problem instead of being part of the solution.
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CLEAR ALL
Jesus was not white. You’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise if you’ve ever entered a Western church or visited an art gallery.
First-century Christians weren’t prepared for what a truly inclusive figure he was, and what was true then is still true today.
Barber makes clear his belief that the role of Christians is to call for social justice and allow the “rejected stones” of American society—the poor, people of color, women, LGBTQIA people, immigrants, religious minorities—to lead the way.
“Racism Is Satanism.” It was this conviction that launched Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, a religious Jew from a Hasidic family in Poland, into the American civil rights movement.
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