Color blindness has been a way that
white communities have typically said,
you know, I'm not racist. I don't see race.
I'm color blind.
The loss, the trivialization of human
connection and human community,
when it is homogeneous, when it is a
monoculture, is actually clearly spelled
out in Scripture.
Our histories clearly have to do with
particular groups who were racialized in
particular ways.
Whiteness is a category that is an
American creation. It was created in
American colonial times.
There's been a tendency among whites
to reduce racism to an intentional,
malicious act. And, you know most of us
think we don't do that.
If we come to this table that has all this
promise and we don't tell the truth about
this huge wound that has really divided
the church, our country, neighborhoods,
schools, communities, relationships,
families, then how are we really
partaking in the feast?
It's not that we're identifying the only
form of brokenness that exists in the
human community or the church,
but we're highlighting one that is just
rather stark, and historically real, and
ongoing, and unaddressed.
