Sue’s Reviews > Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race–And Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations That Divide Us > Status Update

When we focus on another person's skin, we miss the reality of our own sin. This is not about religion or church. This about you and me, black and white, individually acknowledging that we have done wrong. That we have judged others. That we have bias and prejudice in our hearts. It starts here.

When we reduce someone else's humanity to a single-story, we can for a moment feel superior. And this is actually the appeal of racism. It's a reduction of a race of people to a stereotype. That reduction makes some people feel more powerful, even though they aren't. Racism is inherently immature, a form of cowardice, often hiding anonymously within a group that chatters the same things.

Any entertainment that exalts the self inherently feeds pride, and pride is the biggest problem that leads to violence and death.

I'm frustrated because we have believed a lie that says we can listen to, watch, and read about violence, sex,and lawlessness and not expect it to desensitize us.

The solution to the problem of race in America will be found only by ordinary people, "good" people, looking inside themselves, being honest about the assumptions and biases that have formed, and beginning to change what's in their hearts.