By Timothy Dalrymple | ChristianityToday.com
Published in June of 2020
SUMMARY: A straight forward walk-through on America and its institutions that were founded on racism. If you just want the data without personal stories, this is perfect.
KEY QUOTE: “The great evil of American slavery wasn’t the involuntary servitude; it was the fiction that black people aren’t as good as white people, and aren’t the equals of white people, and are less evolved, less human, less capable, less worthy, less deserving than white people.”
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