Proverbs 24 (The Message):
"It's wrong, very wrong,
to go along with injustice.
Whoever whitewashes the wicked
gets a black mark in the history books.
But whoever exposes the wicked
will be thanked and rewarded.
American application:
White superiority [ethnocentrism] and white privilege [built on white economic oppression] have been whitewashed by the American church. There has been no call for white repentance; therefore no restitution/justice. Instead there has been 400 years of white ethnocentrism and oppression with even monuments celebrating ethnocentrism and oppression; Washington Monument [George and Martha owned 300 slaves] and the St. Louis Arch [westward expansion which destroyed not only the buffalo but also thousands of Indian peoples and much of their cultures].
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