Have our society’s problems of racism gone away? Clearly not. I point out the phenomenon of locked car doors to suggest that we have not come as far as we like to think in our attempts to eradicate our racist past. When I asked my sociology students about the sound of car doors locking, black men were the only ones who had heard it, with one exception, a Puerto Rican female. And make no mistake about it: it is a sound reserved for black men. It is a sound which many black men come to hate. ![]() It is a sound which represents the higher incarceration rates of blacks and the beating of Rodney King. It is a sound of the fear which whites still feel toward blacks in our society. I have heard this sound as I walked through a parking lot and even as a car whizzed past me at forty mph. Perhaps my appearance explains why, until recently, I often heard a sound familiar to black men under the age of thirty: KA-CHUNK! It is the sound of car doors locking. The regular teachers often mistook me for a high school student, and once for a junior high student. After college I spent a year substitute teaching. I have been both blessed and cursed with a youthful appearance. But they are welcomed because they help me to look my age. They are feared because they remind me of my declining physical abilities. These hairs are both welcomed and feared. With every passing year, a few more gray hairs appear in my mane. More Titles from InterVarsity Press Introduction PART 2: FINDING A CHRISTIAN APPROACH TO DEALING WITH RACISM: The Mutual Responsibility ModelĦ Toward Constructing a Christian Solution to the Problem of Racismġ1 What Would a Christian Solution Look Like? PART 1: FOUR SECULAR MODELS OF DEALING WITH RACISM Read moreĬouverture : George Yancey, Beyond Racial Gridlock (Embracing Mutual Responsibility), Intervarsity Press Illustration Illustration Contents Yancey's vision offers hope that people of all races can walk together on a shared path-not as adversaries, but as partners. Part two offers a new "mutual responsibility" model, which acknowledges that both majority and minority cultures have their own challenges, tendencies, and sins to repent of, and that people of different races approach racial reconciliation and justice in differing but complementary ways. The first part of the book analyzes four secular models regarding race used by Christians (colorblindness, Anglo-conformity, multiculturalism and white responsibility) and shows how each has its own advantages and limitations. ![]() Sociologist George Yancey surveys a range of approaches to racial healing that Christians have used and offers a new model for moving forward. ![]() Adding to this complex situation is the reality that Christians of different races see the issues differently. Many proposed solutions have been helpful, but these only take us so far. Christians have struggled with racial issues for centuries, and often inadvertently contribute to the problem.
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