Recollecting America’s Original Sin
A Pilgrimage of Race and Grace
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Recollecting America's Original Sin: A Pilgrimage of Race and Grace journeys into anti-black racism throughout US history through a Christian spirituality lens. The reflections are fashioned as a spiritual pilgrimage that integrates listening, reflecting, and daily living. It recollects the nation’s freedom struggles around race, our original sin, which constrains and stains us now as ever. Walking a holy road of past, present, and future meaning, the chapters interlace historical moments and places into a web of provocative concerns. Anyone desiring to respond faithfully to the justice reckonings now seizing our country will travel the race-and-grace journey in these pages.
Preface ix
First Week
On the Threshold of a Journey 1
Moment 1: Reckoning 1
Moment 2: “When You Pray, Move Your Feet” 5
Moment 3: Mr. Jefferson’s Shadow 10
Moment 4: Teach Your Children Well 17
Moment 5: Ties That Bind 20
Moment 6: Origins and Original Sin 24
Moment 7: It’s Not Just Black and White 28
Getting My Bearings 30
Second Week
Shackled Past and Present in Louisiana 33
Moment 1: Sold Down the River 34
Moment 2: The Past Is Present in New Orleans 41
Moment 3: Raising Cane 49
Moment 4: Raising Cain 55
Moment 5: New Orleans Saints 60
Moment 6: Black and Catholic 66
Moment 7: The Lower Ninth Ward 69
Unshackling from the Past 75
Third Week
A Deep South Revolution 77
Moment 1: Strange Fruit 78
Moment 2: Feet and Faith in Montgomery 84
Moment 3: “You Do It to Me” 89
Moment 4: Proud Selma 95
Moment 5: “What Mean These Stones?” 103
Moment 6: Mighty Morehouse 107
Moment 7: 1968 112
Turning North 116
Fourth Week
Just Resistance 118
Moment 1: The Cleveland-Glenville Shoot-Out 120
Moment 2: Northern White Resistance and the Lost Cause 127
Moment 3: Counting Beads of Hope 133
Moment 4: Resisting Segregation—Now 137
Moment 5: Resisting Segregation—Then 143
Moment 6: Just Reckonings 147
Moment 7: On That Day 150
Selected Bibliography 153