CT: Reconciliation

The net worth of the average black household in the United States is $6,314, compared with $110,500 for the average white household, according to 2011 census data...The black-white income gap is roughly 40 percent greater today than it was in 1967...Black men in their 20s without a high school diploma are more likely to be incarcerated today than employed...

All these constitute not a black problem or a white problem, but an American problem. When so much talent is underemployed and over-incarcerated, the entire country suffers.

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Our Father in heaven, in you all people of the earth find their true identity. You made us all equally in your image, as your children, and therefore as each other’s brother and sisters.

Holy be your name and the honor you have bestowed on your united church, above our pride, allegiances, and all other identities and affiliations that tempt us to value ourselves above others and put you second.

-- Nicholas Kristoff

Continue reading about why we can still believe in reconciliation and pray here....