There is an irony in all of this talk of freedom because in many ways the slavery continued and in fact maybe it slowly enslaved a whole lot of white folks instead. There is a long road ahead of us. I found this talk by Tim Keller called Racism and Corporate Evil: A White Guy’s Perspective a very helpful take on what it means to be a people who live in community. We like to disassociate from the evils of the past or the evils south of the border but there are more complex ways of understanding this, as Keller explains.
On June 19, 1865 the Emancipation Proclamation was announced in Texas that all slaves were now free. Freedom Day, as it is also called, is a holiday that has seen a revival in the last number of years and this weekend could see some of its biggest celebrations, given the current mood in the country. It wasn’t until the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified in the US constitution that slavery was officially over.
There is an irony in all of this talk of freedom because in many ways the slavery continued and in fact maybe it slowly enslaved a whole lot of white folks instead. There is a long road ahead of us. I found this talk by Tim Keller called Racism and Corporate Evil: A White Guy’s Perspective a very helpful take on what it means to be a people who live in community. We like to disassociate from the evils of the past or the evils south of the border but there are more complex ways of understanding this, as Keller explains.
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