Kyle Williams

“The other reason we must include our children in these discipleship practices has to do with their own spiritual formation. Our children are born into the smog of our racialized society. Whether or not they recognize it or their parents point it out, these children are born into the historical wound of racial whiteness that, as Wendell Berry says about his own life, was “prepared centuries ago to come alive in me at my birth like a hereditary disease, and to be augmented and deepened by my life.”3 Too often, rather than helping them see through the deceptive smog to the truth, we leave our white children’s imaginations to be corrupted by the narrative of racial difference. And when we abandon our children to the deceptions of our racialized society, they “will observe racial disparities for themselves and explain them by presuming something must be wrong with people of color.”
― David W Swanson, Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity