Cross-posted from Rachel Hackenberg's blog, Faith and Water:
A friend read my "Minding Our Motives" post and recalled a familiar triusm: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
So, if the road of white racism---by which I mean, well-intentioned-but-oblivious white prejudice and acquiescence to systemic racism, as opposed to intentionally hateful acts of discrimination and physical/verbal/emotional violence against non-whites---is in fact a road to hell that is paved with our (well-meaning white folks') good intentions, then what is our salvation from ourselves and from the preferential system in which we are entrenched?
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Monday, February 8, 2010
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