There is a relentless drive in human beings, both inward and transcendent, that demands dignity and propels our progress—it is the spirit of justice. It is the conviction to continue the struggle no matter the odds or the obstacles. It is the heartbeat of people who hunger and thirst for righteousness. It will not concede. It will not let the evil

the backlash—some would call it “whitelash”—that occurs every time a movement for racial justice takes place.

“He remembers that with each modest advance the white population promptly raises the argument that the Negro has come far enough. Each step forward accents an ever-present tendency to backlash.”

“It is not the mere presence of black people that is the problem. . . . It is blackness that refuses to accept subjugation, to give up,”

Most people are not willing to give up their comfort, status, time, or treasure to truly devote themselves to the cause of racial justice.

Activism involves actions that purposely and directly challenge injustice to change opinions, policies, and practices.

white Christian nationalism—an ethnocultural ideology that uses Christian symbolism to create a permission structure for the acquisition of political power and social control—proudly displayed its willingness to destroy democracy on January 6, 2021.

Thus, the project of European imperial expansion into the Americas became not merely one of nation-building and resource-hoarding, but rather the doctrine of discovery made the effort into an unequivocal good for the glory of God. But the reality that some indigenous and African people were also Christian complicated an emerging system of racial an

historical appropriation is most tempting to those whose political, theological, and economic lineage not only ignored racial justice but actively supported racist beliefs and actions.