A conversation with Jemar Tisby, author of “The Color of Compromise” and president of The Witness. Hosted by Aurora Ling, PhD candidate at Princeton University. “Racism has an aspect of power that is not equally distributed.” Prejudice + institutional power = racism.
“There are acts of commission, and acts of omission. All of us can be implicated. A complicit Christianity is not countercultural.”
➡️ Racial justice is an A.R.C.: AWARENESS = build your knowledge. “Google it.” Know the history of white supremacy, which operates according to a playbook. RELATIONSHIPS = Get to know, deeply. You can’t love those you cannot know. COMMIT = To anti-racist policy. If you are looking at this present moment and are not rethinking how/who you vote, please step to the side. Racial justice is a journey that requires policy change.
• Jemar’s book, “The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism”: https://www.zondervan.com/9780310597278/the-color-of-compromise/
• “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/beverly-daniel-tatum/why-are-all-the-black-kids-sitting-together-in-the-cafeteria/9781541616585/
• Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” (and the concept of the “fierce urgency of now”): https://www.naacp.org/i-have-a-dream-speech-full-march-on-washington/
Find this and many other talks at http://www.veritas.org/engage.
SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=VeritasForum
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/veritasforum?fref=ts
Over the past two decades, The Veritas Forum has been hosting vibrant discussions on life's hardest questions and engaging the world's leading colleges and universities with Christian perspectives and the relevance of Jesus. Learn more at http://www.veritas.org, with upcoming events and over 600 pieces of media on topics including science, philosophy, music, business, medicine, and more!