Two longtime friends—Reggie Dabbs and John Driver—engage in a respectful, challenging exploration of racism in America
A Note from the Authors
Racism in the United States is a wound first inflicted hundreds of years ago that continues to fester. At various times, we have been told to leave it in the past and just move on, but how can we move on from a wound that is full of countless shards of broken glass and is still bleeding? We can’t merely wrap it in the gauze of rhetorical forgiveness—even if we quote Scripture—and hope that healing will magically occur.
Tending to the wound of racism isn’t as black and white as many people want it to be, regardless of which polarized political or religious group we gravitate toward. The only path to healing is through individual and collective debridement—the painful but life-giving removal of the shards that inflicted the wound. That is, in part, what both of us intended for our initial conversations: to enter the hard but healing process required to address racism in all its forms.
—Reggie Dabbs & John Driver
