racism and reconciliation: why is it so hard?

Eugene Cho, pastor of a multicultural church in Seattle, gets to the heart of the issue:

racism and reconciliation: why is it so hard? « beauty and depravity.

Here is his question and the first two reasons:

Why is racism such a difficult topic and issue - including for Christians? Well, here are some of my reasons:

1. It’s hard work.  And people can be lazy.  And talking about racism is an exhausting conversation because it brings up some deep questions. Reconciliation is hard work.  The need for reconcilation assumes that something is broken; something is not as it was intended to be.
2. Something called ‘Life.’  There’s lots of other things going on - umm, like the financial recession. There’s more important things going on.

His list runs to ten reasons and is by no means exclusive. 

We have got to get to grips with this one. I have noted before that the big global depression lead to the rise of Nazism. People always want to pin the blame of someone for their woes, and its often other races.

Let the church lead the way in opposing any rise in racism.  A multicultural church will keep us all accountable.