Cathy Meeks

Nine essays on racism in America by black and white authors that explore how to talk honestly about race as step towards dismantling racism. Covered are Howard Thurman’s ideal of a Beloved Community sparked by his 1936 meeting with Mohandas Gandhi that profoundly influenced Martin Luther King, jr. The importance of understanding that racism is a system that has been constructed because it benefits a portion of society, who are loath to give up its benefits. It is a both a political and social construct that is more than a visceral hatred of another group of people. Repentance and reconciliation will require not only self-examination, but also patient listening to others whose experience is different from your own even when they may express it in anger with harsh words. It is a spiritual discipline that will be neither easy, nor produce speedy results, but that success will come bit by bit in the fullness of time.… (altro)