From Ekklesia-Racism is ingrained in US culture and, despite substantial progress, Americans must remain vigilant about their tendencies to exclude those they define as “the other”.
This is what was agreed by participants in the 15 November 2013 opening session of “Fifty Years Later: The State of Racism in America,” a two-day gathering sponsored by the Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Mississippi in the United States.
Human history has seen a “lurching expansion” of the categories that previous generations used to define and then exclude, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said in her keynote address.
“There is good news in the increased crossing of old boundaries; there is hope in the shrinking ability of younger generations to recognise those boundaries,” she said. “Yet continued vigilance is required, beginning with our own interior lives.”
How, she asked, does one encounter a stranger and make assumptions that influence how one decides to interact with the person?
Saying “the human heart is larger than the fences we build between us,” Jefferts Schori defined vigilance as “an essential spiritual discipline linked to the examination of conscience and repentance.”
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