Be the Bridge Latasha Morrison
10 Favorite Lines:
When we lack historical understanding, we lose part of our identity. We don’t know where we came from and don’t know what there is to celebrate or lament.
Church leaders were slow to acknowledge, let alone lament, the continuing racism in our country.
…each ethnicity reflects a unique aspect of God’s image. …it takes every tribe, tongue, and nation to reflect the image of God in his fulness.
Race, as we know it, is a political and social construct created by man for the purpose of asserting power and maintaining hierarchy.
Lamenting something horrific that has taken place allows a deep connection to form between the person lamenting and the harm that was done, and that emotional connection is the first step in creating a pathway for healing and hope. We have to sit in the sorrow, avoid trying to fix it right away, avoid our attempts to make it all okay.
…it’s one thing to have a Constitution and another thing entirely to make sure it’s guarantee of equal protection is applied justly for all image bearers.
Martin Luther King, Jr. said it best: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Understanding that we’ve been forgiven so much, shouldn’t we extend forgiveness to others? …Forgiving others is the most Christlike act we can carry out.
…we tend to have blind spots about the sin of racism in our own lives.
…between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference… I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. [—Frederick Douglass, about American “Christianity”]
