That’s right: it is not enough for white Christians to examine their hearts and lives to see whether they stand guilty (which they do); they must also examine the attitudes and actions of their ancestors—which, according to antiracist cosmology, includes all white people. And this is no small thing. In Morrison’s theology, this is a cardinal doctrine. “That is the power of the unconfessed sin of white supremacy, racism, and resulting colorism: it leads to death, sometimes physical, sometimes metaphorical.”
