The Color of Compromise - Session 7 - Remembering the Complicity in the North
Color of Compromise (Jemar Tisby) • 19m
Christians of the North have often been characterized as abolitionists, integrationists, and open-minded citizens who want all people to have a chance at equality. Christians of the South, on the other hand, have been portrayed as uniformly racist, segregationist, and antidemocratic. The truth is far more complicated. In reality, most of the black people who left the South still contended with segregation and put up with daily assaults on their dignity, and the church contributed to this.
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