Rhetoric Race and Religion
This post is mostly for other white Christians.
It’s not about what we should all be doing today in response to what’s happening in #ferguson and dozens of other cities today. Nearly two weeks into this spreading eruption there’s so much powerful and precise writing out there now on that, that not a one among us can possibly say again, “I’m so upset and outraged, but I just don’t know what a white person’s to do.”
Find something. Do it. Right now.
But this post is about the longer haul when the tear gas canisters are finally empty. It’s for those of us who love to talk about “racial reconciliation.” About “welcome” and “inclusion.”
I’d bet a lot of money that if you’re a liberal white Christian you recognize these concepts very well.
Racial reconciliation.
It’s the official way we justice-loving, liberal (white) Protestants have talked about how we should respond to racism since the civil rights era came to a close. It’s the most persistent path we’ve chosen in our pursuit of the interracial healing and togetherness we seem to know (or think) we need.
And that’s what this long haul post is about.
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