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David French has alienated those of us “fake” conservatives who don’t buy into the progressive framing of racial issues. GianCarlo Canaparo writes:
In a recently published blog, David French, a Christian conservative commentator, argues that “systemic racism” is real and that Christians have an obligation to cure it. This is true, he claims, even if they are not themselves intentionally racist, because they are inadvertently perpetuating the racism of their ancestors.
Citing several Old Testament examples where God commanded the Israelites to confess and make amends for the “sins and iniquities of their fathers,” French says that Christians have an “intergenerational” obligation to “ameliorate systemic injustice” by embracing the “solutions” found in sociology, history, and economics.
Distilled to its essence, French’s argument has three parts: (1) systemic racism exists, (2) the Bible requires Christians to cure it (3) by looking for solutions outside of the Bible.
[GianCarlo Canaparo, "Sloppy Thinking About ‘Systemic Racism’," The Daily Signal, August 5]
