From Syracuse-
When we were children, we played hide and seek. One
time when we were playing after dark, I was hiding behind a tree. I
heard someone approaching and I began to run. No matter how fast I ran,
the person chasing me kept getting closer. Something about running in
the dark, feeling that I wouldn’t be able to escape, suddenly seemed
ominous and frightening.
As February, the month
dedicated to Black History and Presidents Day, comes to a close, I find
myself considering the ways that our nation is still running in fear
from the truth about racism. Those of us who have benefited most from
slavery and institutional racism often dismiss the need to talk about
race. We may even think racism no longer exists in America. But the more
we refute it, the more we find it chasing us. There is more work to do,
much more work. So as Lent, the Christian season of repentance,
approaches on March 6, I invite you to join me in prayerfully doing the
work of repenting of America’s original sin of institutional racism.
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