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The Color of Compromise, The Truth About The American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby; 2019, $21.99, 253 pages, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI; 978-0-310-59726-1; checked out from Multnomah County Library, Gresham; 3/4/19-3/7/19

Even before the founding of the United States the Christian church was finding rationalizations from the Bible for allowing slavery.  Throughout the history of the United States the church has been complicit in systemic racism, either actively supporting or quietly ignoring it.  Jemar Tisby takes a flyover look at the history of the American Church's complicity in racism.  He looks at incidents and people throughout the history of the United States from Cotton Mather to Donald Trump.  
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