Bearing this in mind leads some Christians to argue that we shouldn’t even talk about race or use the word since it’s a manmade concept. Using the term only serves to further divide us. There’s only one race—the human race—so shouldn’t we just categorize differences between people with terminology like “ethnicity”? In a word, no. I believe that Scripture compels us to speak the truth about the primary way our ghettoization has manifested itself in the American context. Discarding the word “race” would make it easier to ignore the devastating and deadly impact of racialized ghettoization.
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