Affirmative action, which muddles questions of individual rights and group responsibilities, cannot provide these tools. Restoring these values, as well as restoring family life itself, is the task facing church, business, and school partnerships. The stories of limited success, such as those reported on pages 70-73 of this issue, show us we have the models. Just as business has learned to love diversity, some Christian organizations have been learning to love racial reconciliation. Strang publishes magazines for Pentecostals and charismatics, a stream of evangelicalism that has strong appeal among African Americans and Latinos.
Reconciliation can only happen when peoples labor and live together.
Racial reconciliation is the wave of God's future. And while affirmative action was a sadly failed experiment, we must work to bend the public will toward doing the right thing.