And therefore it is our single opportunity. It's a spiritual problem for white people, because we deny it. It's a spiritual problem for black people because they can't deny it. Jesus considered it one of the major spiritual issues of the Jews and Samaritans of his time. Racial injustice makes a lie of religion.
Racial sickness goes to the depth of the human soul.
It was part of the essential power of early Christianity. Therefore, at the same time that we are deeply conflicted, Richmond is on the brink of something great. It's just on the other side of the street, in a blink of an eye. There are indications. We all know it is possible.