Summary of Jemar Tisby's The Color of Compromise

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killed four young girls, and injured at least twenty others. It was a turning point in Charles Morgan Jr. ’s life, as he realized that he was complicit in the state of race relations in Birmingham.
#2 The Color of Compromise is about telling the truth so that reconciliation - robust, consistent, and honest - might occur across racial lines. However, many Christians try to bypass the truth-telling process in their haste to achieve reconciliation.
#3 Racism is a system of oppression based on race. It is not only personal bigotry toward someone of a different race that constitutes racism, but also the imposition of bigoted ideas on groups of people.
#4 The Color of Compromity is an introduction to the history of racism in the American church, and how it has shaped Christianity in the United States. It highlights several prominent figures and events, but does not cover every single person and event that has shaped American Christianity over the past centuries.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Christian Living
• Social issues

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 23 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669359098
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Jemar Tisby's The Color of Compromise
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killed four young girls, and injured at least twenty others. It was a turning point in Charles Morgan Jr. ’s life, as he realized that he was complicit in the state of race relations in Birmingham.

#2

The Color of Compromise is about telling the truth so that reconciliation - robust, consistent, and honest - might occur across racial lines. However, many Christians try to bypass the truth-telling process in their haste to achieve reconciliation.

#3

Racism is a system of oppression based on race. It is not only personal bigotry toward someone of a different race that constitutes racism, but also the imposition of bigoted ideas on groups of people.

#4

The Color of Compromity is an introduction to the history of racism in the American church, and how it has shaped Christianity in the United States. It highlights several prominent figures and events, but does not cover every single person and event that has shaped American Christianity over the past centuries.

#5

Racist attitudes and actions change over time, and this survey demonstrates this. Society creates racial categories, and as it changes, so does racism.

#6

The church has not always been complicit with racism, as the black church has always been a bulwark against bigotry. But the examples given in this book do not present a positive picture.

#7

The long history of racism in the American church reveals that certain people will object to the premise of this book. They will argue that the ideas in The Color of Compromise are too liberal, that a Marxist Communist ideology underlies all the talk about racial equality, and that the historical facts have been misinterpreted.

#8

While the American church has been complicit in racism, it has also been a driving force for black progress.

#9

The church was built on the idea of unity, and Christians are mandated to pray that the racial and ethnic unity of the church would be manifested in the present.

#10

Christians must learn to discern between complicit Christianity and courageous Christianity. Complicit Christianity forfeits its moral authority by devaluing the image of God in people of color.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The colonial museum in Williamsburg, Virginia, features exhibits detailing the earliest English settlements in North America. Plaques explaining the conditions for Africans in colonial Virginia hang on the walls.

#2

The first days of European contact with indigenous peoples and the first days of African slavery in North America show how individuals and groups who had power chose dividends over dignity and made America a place where darker-skinned people occupied a limited and inferior role.

#3

Columbus’s arrival in North America in 1492 marked the beginning of European colonization, motivated by profit, and predicated on unpaid labor. The racial caste system that underlies American society was developed over time, and Europeans equated lighter skin with beauty and desirability long before chattel slavery became the norm.

#4

For the next century and a half, European colonists struggled to establish settlements in North America. They faced new climates, diseases, starvation, and a short supply of people. But they eventually established towns and cities, and began raising crops and families.

#5

The transatlantic slave trade took place over the course of 300 years, and transported more than ten million Africans to the Americas. The human cost in terms of suffering, indignity, and death caused by this commerce can never be fully comprehended.

#6

The transatlantic slave trade began long before the ships landed in the Americas. The cruelty continued after the Africans were brought to America, as buyers would rush to purchase enslaved people in a chaotic spectacle of greed and brutality.

#7

The British slave trade was abolished in 1807, and slavery in Britain was outlawed in 1833. The Industrial Revolution, which occurred at the same time, fueled an international appetite for raw materials such as cotton.