The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

by Jemar Tisby

Education should lead to informed action, and informed action should lead to liberation, justice, and repair.

if we built the walls on purpose, we need to tear down the walls on purpose.

We live in a country centered around whiteness that disregards how the image of God is on magnificent display in nonwhite bodies (and histories and theologies, etc.). If we don’t take responsibility for what has happened in America, we’re not willing to see the image of God throughout the world.

Indifference to oppression perpetuates oppression.

there can be no reconciliation without repentance. There can be no repentance without confession. And there can be no confession without truth.