Brandon Hall

“Tears that are driven by white guilt are self-indulgent.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“God’s vision for his people is not for the elimination of ethnicity to form a colorblind uniformity of sanctified blandness. Instead God sees the creation of a community of different cultures united by faith in his Son as a manifestation of the expansive nature of his grace. This expansiveness is unfulfilled unless the differences are seen and celebrated, not as ends unto themselves, but as particular manifestations of the power of the Spirit to bring forth the same holiness among different peoples and cultures for the glory of God.”
― Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

“The state has duties, and we can hold them accountable even if it means that we suffer for doing so peacefully. This suffering is only futile if the resurrection is a lie. If the resurrection is true, and the Christian stakes his or her entire existence on its truthfulness, then our peaceful witness testifies to a new and better way of being human that transcends the endless cycle of violence.”
― Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

“there would be no black church without racism in the white church.”
― Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism