The president and CEO of Christianity Today says in a new editorial that churches should consider making “biblical restitution” to African Americans for the sins of slavery, segregation and racial injustice by setting up financial funds “to make it right.”
“It’s time for white evangelicals to confess that we have not taken the sin of racism with the gravity and seriousness it deserves,” Christianity Today’s Timothy Dalrymple writes in the editorial under the headline, “Justice Too Long Delayed.”
“… [R]epentance is not enough.”
Dalrymple quotes a Barna poll that found “only 42 percent of white Christians believe the history of slavery continues to impact African Americans today.” Dalrymple, though, says the impact of slavery continued through American history because the “virus” – racism – “mutated.”
Dalrymple labels slavery one of America’s “original sins” and details not only its history but that of reconstruction, Jim Crow laws, “progressive policies” that made things worse, and over-incarceration.
“The result … is a catastrophic wealth gap: The median net worth of black families in the United States today is one-tenth the median net worth of white families. Sixty-two percent of black children born between 1955 and 1970 were raised in poor neighborhoods, compared to 4 percent of white children,” he writes. “Results…
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