The church’s most vexing problem today is how to define itself by the gospel of Jesus’ cross. Where is the gospel of Jesus’ cross revealed today? The lynching of black America is taking place in the criminal justice system where nearly one-third of black men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-eight are in prisons, jails, on parole, or waiting for their day in court. Nearly one-half of the more than two million people in prisons are black. That is one million black people behind bars, more than in colleges. Through private prisons and the “war against drugs,” whites have turned the
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You could basically tack The Trayvon Generation or any one of dozens of books to the end of this one to answer his question. Of courses, Michelle Alexander's book is a perfect choice as well. But something that talks about this new age of lynching—not new lynching but newly visible, video lynching...
