Revisiting Racism

Thanks Jennifer Reyes
"Excellent article in America magazine on racism, Catholics, and black theology"

          For white people living in the United States, the entanglement of Christianity with chattel slavery and antiblack racism forms a set of deep and confusing paradoxes. As a nation, we understand ourselves in terms of freedom, but we have been unable to grapple with our depriving blacks of freedom in the name of white prosperity and with our tolerance of legalized racial segregation and discrimination. As a nation, we have been shaped by racism, habituated to its presence, indifferent to its lethal capacity to inflict lingering human damage. Too often, Christians not only failed to defy slavery and condemn tolerance of racism; they supported it and benefited from these evils and ignored the very Gospel they had pledged to preach. READ MORE- CLIC HERE

-----M. Shawn Copeland's article in America Magazine this week on Racism is a good one. Revisiting Racism: Black Theology & a Legacy of Oppression
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