The Disease Within a Disease
But while that history helps to explain how our racial hierarchy arose, it doesn’t explain why it endures well into the 21st century—much less why we’re not trying very hard to get rid of it.
Rev. Scott Garber has ministered in several African-American and multicultural congregations, as well as teaching theology in Spain and Romania for more than a decade. He served as Senior Pastor at Washington Community Fellowship on Capitol Hill and is currently a Pastor-at-Large at Bridgeway Community Church in Columbia, MD. Scott is the founder and Executive Director of Overcoming, a nonprofit dedicated to racial justice and healing. He recently published a moral examination of white racial attitudes entitled White as Sin: A New Paradigm for Racial Healing (https://www.scottgarberbooks.com).