CLAIMS: Accountable individualism. Individuals exist independent of structures, and are only accountable for their own actions
REALITY: Ignores the systems, structures, policies that create inequality
SLAVERY TO CIVIL WAR: Missionaries wanted to save the souls of the slaves, without concern for their physical liberation. [image of broken chains]
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.
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]