Sublime

racism is not evil because its victims are good, it is evil because its victims are human.

8 SOCIAL JUSTICE SCHOLARSHIP AND THOUGHT

En passe de devenir une figure emblématique, mais controversée, du mouvement africain-américain, Williams va faire de la section locale de la NAACP une véritable « unité de combat10 », essentiellement composée de vétérans expérimentés11, décidée à mettre un terme à l’injustice raciale et à l’« Empire invisible » (terme par lequel s’autodésigne le K

At its best, it produces, as we shall see, a strong “social gospel” agenda in which many of the things the gospels emphasize about Jesus—his care for the poor, the sick, the weak, and so on—are given a new energy that official “orthodoxy” has often strangely failed to supply.

Gorman says beautifully, “For Paul, to be in Christ is to be a living exegesis of this narrative of Christ, a new performance of the original drama of exaltation following humiliation, of humiliation as the voluntary renunciation of rights and selfish gain in order to serve and obey.”26

Moreover, Harriet Stowe had made a black man her hero, and she took his race seriously, and no American writer had done that before. The fundamental fault, she fervently held, was with the system. Every white American was guilty, the Northerner no less than the slaveholder, especially the churchgoing kind, her kind.

Knowledge is only power if knowledge is put to the struggle for power.

Racist ideas argue that the inferiorities and superiorities of racial groups explain racial inequities in society.

We might summarize these four major points like this: God, man, Christ, and response.