Kelly Brown Douglas, a Black Womanist theologian and dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary, wrote a searing piece on the limits of this approach—apology, study, even reparations—to repent for an organization’s participation in such profound evil. For, she writes, “The fact of the matter is—after the money has been paid . . . for scholarships and other programming—systems and structures are not disrupted.
