And this is the complaint that many black evangelicals had of white evangelicals during this period. Some of the white elite evangelicals attempted reconciliation, but incompletely. The problem with whites’ conception of reconciliation, many claimed, was that they did not seek true justice—that is, justice both individually and collectively. Without this component, reconciliation was cheap, artificial, and mere words. It was rather like a big brother shoving his little brother to the ground, apologizing, and then shoving him to the ground again.
