Institutional apologizing without sustained action lets churches evade real racial reckoning

Evidence

White Christians, and even my own childhood home denomination, are gradually beginning to face the bare fact that white supremacy has played a role in shaping American Christianity. But they have been too quick to see laments and apologies as the end, rather than the beginning, of a process. They also remain full of contradictions and too quickly avert their gaze when the weighty implications of history require concrete, sustained action in the present. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 159

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racism persists without explicit racial language, operating through denial and apology — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1867

Broader Connections

• Racism persists without explicit racial language, operating through denial and apology #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1867