In a follow-up discussion, several months after 2020’s long summer of racial tumult, she told us: “If we had God right, we would get people right. You can’t be mistreating people and say you somehow have God right. You have missed God.” For this highly educated African American Christian woman, as with so many we interviewed, white Christians—who are supposed to be part of her faith family—are engaged in betrayal. They have long been engaged in it, they are actively engaged in it now, and she has lost hope that they will stop engaging in it in the future.
