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Who Will Call Out the President's Racism?
Jim Wallis

Racism is a sin that has been biblically established. It was and
is America's original sin. Racism is notoriously both implicit
and explicit, but covert and overt racism must be acknowledged
and repented. When racism is made explicit and overt in the
public arena, it must be named and called out for what it is --
especially when the comments come from the president of the
United States. Donald Trump's tweeted and spoken racial
assaults on four women of color, duly elected to the U.S.
Congress, are a public sin that must be called out. Who will do
that and who will not?

Trump's tweets on Sunday and comments at the White House since,
telling the four members of Congress -- Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, and Rep.
Rashida Tlaib -- to go back to the countries they came from is
painfully reminiscent of what people and families of color have
been told from the moment they arrived in America by far too many
white people -- all of whom were also immigrants at some point
or were white settlers who stole the lands of Indigenous Peoples
and tried to wipe them away.

Such comments are always racist. They are offensive to our
founding ideals, despite how badly those principles were flawed
and inconsistent by race and gender in their application. But an
attack on persons of color, all made in the image of God and
deserving of equal dignity and respect as God's children and as
U.S. citizens, is offensive to God.

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