Blacks = America's most religious group
83% believe in God w/ absolute certainty (whites: 61%)
75% say religion is very important (whites: 49%)
Yet when news highlights religion in U.S., it's nearly always about *white* Evangelicals.
Check out: @JemarTisby's #ColorOfCompromise
83% believe in God w/ absolute certainty (whites: 61%)
75% say religion is very important (whites: 49%)
Yet when news highlights religion in U.S., it's nearly always about *white* Evangelicals.
Check out: @JemarTisby's #ColorOfCompromise
https://twitter.com/JemarTisby/status/1278303685450379264
Tisby: white Christians will say discussing systemic racism is "liberal" or a "Marxist ideology underlies" it all.
"They will say racists don't represent the REAL American church [or] that discussing race is 'abandoning the gospel' with a problematic demand for social justice."
"They will say racists don't represent the REAL American church [or] that discussing race is 'abandoning the gospel' with a problematic demand for social justice."
Tisby: "These arguments...were used throughout American church history to deny or defend racism.
You may grapple with learning a narrative that contradicts much of what you have been taught...ideas about people who were cast as heroes of the faith.
The pain is worth the price."
You may grapple with learning a narrative that contradicts much of what you have been taught...ideas about people who were cast as heroes of the faith.
The pain is worth the price."
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