Just as the bombing damaged the church building and its people-racism-like the bombing, has hurt many Black Americans and the American church throughout history. Jemar Tisby’s description of the horrific event serves as a good imagery for racism. The Color of Compromise opens with the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963 Alabama, when 4 members of the Ku Klux Klan planted bombs inside a Black church, killing 4 young girls and injuring 22 members of the church. The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism outlines a history of systemic racism within the American political system and the American Church-a history of complicity in racism that Jemar Tisby argues remains to this day. But in his attempt to expose the American Church’s supposed complicity in systemic racism today, Jemar Tisby reveals his own complicity in foolish, ignorant controversies that breed quarrels within the Church. Jemar Tisby’s first book does a masterful job describing how White Christians in America compromised on slavery and segregation against Black Americans.
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