Slowly I started to see what I couldn\u2019t before\u2014a pervasive injustice all around.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe world is wrong. You can\u2019t put the past behind you. It\u2019s buried in you.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u2013 Claudia Rankine<\/em><\/p>\n Slavery. Convict leasing. Over 4,000 lynchings. Jim Crow segregation. White flight and red-lining.<\/p>\n All of it is buried in us.<\/em>\u00a0All of it points to an appallingly racist past that has left a racist legacy that manifests itself in policies and systems that disadvantage and oppress specific people groups.<\/p>\n Like our education system, where black and brown students find themselves more segregated than they were in 1968\u2014stuck in schools that are understaffed and under-resourced.<\/p>\n Or a\u00a0criminal justice system that frisks 85% of blacks and Latinos<\/a>\u00a0stopped by police, but only 8% of whites. Those are just two examples of many\u2014the tippity-top of a giant racial iceberg. Statistics I didn\u2019t know until I started to listen.<\/p>\n I had no idea that\u00a0Sunday remains the most segregated hour in America<\/a>. I saw a handful of black people inside my church as proof that we were fine. I had no idea that\u00a0many black evangelicals in predominately white churches report feeling unseen and unheard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Why the Church Can\u2019t Keep Turning Away From Our Race Issues: Why We Can\u2019t Put the Past Behind Us \u2014 Because It\u2019s Buried In Us https:\/\/t.co\/WYzkPd2ohe<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Ann Voskamp (@AnnVoskamp) April 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n