Visual Summary of “Color of Compromise” by Jemar Tisby
<p>CLAIMS: Accountable individualism. Individuals exist independent of structures, and are only accountable for their own actions<br />
REALITY: Ignores the systems, structures, policies that create inequality</p>
<p>SLAVERY TO CIVIL WAR: Missionaries wanted to save the souls of the slaves, without concern for their physical liberation. [image of broken chains]</p>
<p>JIM CROW TO CIVIL RIGHTS: MLK Jr.’s “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” calls out moderate Christians, asking them to take a stance and take action in the fight for Civil Rights.</p>
<p>PRESENT DAY: Christians see racism as an individual sin, the failure to love one’s neighbor that can be solved one conversion, one friendship at a time. [image of holding hands]</p>
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