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February 13 - February 13, 2019
The white Church considers power its birthright rather than its curse. And so, rather than seeking reconciliation, they stage moments of racial harmony that don’t challenge the status quo.
people of color in the organization get saddled with the task of constantly fixing the harm done by halfhearted diversity efforts.
most “reconciliation conversations” spend most of their time teaching white people about racism.
White people need to listen, to pause so that people of color can clearly articulate both the disappointment they’ve endured and what it would take for reparations to be made.
reconciliation is not about white feelings. It’s about diverting power and attention to the oppressed, toward the powerless.
Diverting Power to the powerless
Jesus doesn’t need all white people to get onboard before justice and reconciliation can be achieved.
free to link arms with those who are already being transformed. Because at no point in America’s history did all white people come together to correct racial injustice. At no point did all white people decide chattel slavery should end.
whiteness sees love as a prize it is owed, rather than a moral obligation it must demonstrate.
Love is a responsibility
What is left when hope is gone? What is left when the source of my hope has failed? Each death of hope has been painful and costly. But in the mourning there always rises a new clarity about the world, about the Church, about myself, about God.
There was nothing in their life that said, “This will end in my lifetime. I will see the end of this.” And they struggled. And they resisted.
work toward a world unseen, currently unimaginable. I am not enslaved, and yet I look back and see centuries of creative evolution of the hatred for Black bodies.
How dare I consider surrender simply because I want the warmth of the sun? This warmth has not been promised to me. My faith does not require it.
