Introduction

Racism has been an integral part of the Church for the longest time. It still is! This is in spite of the fact that our general reaction, particularly the victim's, to racism is one of revulsion and intolerance. The following statement is typical,

Introduction

A senior church leader has spoken out against the lack of unity among black-led churches and calls for an end to the policy of separate development. Mike Best reports. There is growing concern that the proliferation of black-led churches could lead to too many buildings, too few followers in each congregation, and disunity between denominations. The warning comes as new and existing denominations exploit the new phenomena as hundreds of black men and women return to church within our inner cities.

Fourth talk in the Radio 4 Lent Series, 2003
Every Christian needs to embrace a mental image of Jesus, the Incarnate Son of God, as someone who looks like them. I am convinced that this is particularly true for Black people like myself, who have undergone centuries of mental conditioning of seeing Jesus portrayed as a White European, with only the devil and his imps as Black.